Trump Says ‘Money Machine’ Korea Should Pay More for US Troops
- US, South Korea reached troop-funding deal two weeks ago
- Former president touts good ties with North Korean leader Kim
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said South Korea would pay billions of dollars more every year to host US troops if he were in the White House, calling the long-time US ally a “money machine.”
“If I were there now, they’d be paying us $10 billion a year and you know what, they’d be happy to do it,” Trump told Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on Tuesday in an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago. “It’s a money machine, South Korea.”