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Colin Zwirko
Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. Follow him on Twitter @ColinZwirko.
Following months of similar comments demanding South Korea contribute more money to the U.S.-ROK defense alliance on the peninsula, President Donald Trump on Wednesday went a step further, implying that the South should pay the entire cost.
Speaking at a political rally in Florida, Trump told the audience the U.S. pays for the defense of “one country – I won't say the country – but one country we spend a lot of money on, defending, very dangerous territory.”