It is interesting that President Trump actually noticed all the people from the prior South Korean government getting prosecuted. I wonder if he realizes this is largely what the Korean left does when they get in power, they prosecute prior conservative administrations for things real and imagined:
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday there seems to be something like a “purge or revolution” in South Korea, and that the United States cannot have such a thing and “do business there,” as he is set to have a summit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on the day.
Trump made the remarks in a social media post, as former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained over his botched martial law bid in December.
“WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA? Seems like a Purge or Revolution,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“We can’t have that and do business there. I am seeing the new President today at the White House,” he added.
There is a reason the police generally look at relatives first during a murder investigation because the statistics show a reletative is the likely culprit:
Nearly half of murders committed in Korea last year targeted family members such as parents, spouses and children, data showed Sunday.
According to the National Police Agency’s 2024 crime statistics, 131 of the 276 people apprehended for murder last year, or 47.5 percent, had killed a spouse, parent, child or other relative.
The share hovered around 30 percent between 2020 and 2022, but in 2023, it surged to 55.1 percent, or 160 out of 290 murder suspects. The apparent sharp rise was partly due to a change in methodology that year, when cases involving former spouses or common-law partners began to be counted. The proportion has since remained close to half.
You can read more at the link. What I find interesting about this stat is that in all of Korea last year there was 276 murders. For comparison in 2023 in Washington, DC there was 273 murders. Yet the Democrats and the media want people believe there is not a crime problem in Washington DC when that one city has nearly the same total number of murders as an entire major country.
Bill Gates arrives in S. Korea Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation and Microsoft Corp. co-founder, arrives in South Korea via Seoul Gimpo Business Aviation Center in western Seoul on Aug. 20, 2025. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
Remains of 4 Turkish soldiers killed during Korean War Troops of the defense ministry’s Agency for KIA (Killed in Action) Recovery and Identification carry boxes containing the remains of four soldiers presumed to be Turkish nationals who were killed while fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War during a ceremony in Seoul on Aug. 21, 2025, to receive them from the United States via the United Nations Command, in this photo released by the ministry. (Yonhap)
This is actually a little surprising to me that President Lee did not hedge on maintaining the forced labor and comfort women agreements with Japan. It is good to see that he is maintaining policy consistency between governments. We will see what happens in the future though when he needs a distraction from some domestic political scandal of some kind. It always seems like that is the time ROK politicians play the anti-Japan card:
On relations with Japan, Lee said his government will uphold past agreements on the issues of wartime forced labor and former sex slave for Japanese troops, euphemistically called “comfort women.”
“It is very difficult for the South Korean people to accept these agreements,” he said in the interview. “But as they are promises made between countries, it would be undesirable to overturn them.”
Although Lee had previously criticized the agreements, he said that as president he intends to honor them in the interest of bilateral relations, noting his dual responsibility to ensure policy consistency and maintain national trust while also considering the views of the Korean public, victims and their bereaved families.
He also expressed hope that Seoul and Tokyo can confront painful historical issues squarely and move relations forward.
How cute President Lee thinks he can get the Kim regime to denuclearize:
President Lee Jae Myung has said he will pursue a three-stage denuclearization plan for North Korea, with Seoul approaching such a strategy via active efforts for dialogue with Pyongyang based on the solid alliance with the United States.
In an interview with Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun ahead of his visit to Tokyo for summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Lee said he will seek to freeze North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs in the first stage.
In the second and final stage, Lee said he will seek to reduce and dismantle North Korea’s nuclear program, according to a script of the interview provided by the presidential office.
South Korea, while maintaining close coordination with the U.S., will actively pursue inter-Korean dialogue to establish conditions for the goal, Lee told the Japanese newspaper.
You can read more at the link, but I am sure Lee knows that he has no chance of getting North Korea to denuclearize. That is why his plan first has pursuing a nuclear freeze deal. This is the only viable deal that can be pursued with North Korea at this time. A cap on the number of North Korean nuclear weapons and ICBMs in return for dropping sanctions might be something the Kim regime may go for.
The big question is what is the North Koreans doing to restore these agreements, or will it all be one sided:
Lee said the South under his leadership will respect the North’s current system and that it will not pursue any form of unification by absorption.
He also said that Seoul will take “proactive, gradual steps” to restore the Sept. 19 military agreement, signed between the two sides in 2018 to reduce border tensions.
“If small, practical steps pile up like pebbles, mutual trust will be restored. The path to peace will widen, and a foundation will be laid for South and North Korea to grow together,” Lee said.
You can read more at the link, but that is the problem with the Korean left; they actually think the North Koreans want peace. The North Korean system of government cannot survive if there is peace with the South. The Kim regime uses the unification of the Korean peninsula by removing the U.S. imperialists and the traitorous ROK government as a rationale for their continued one party rule. Without the goal of reunifying the peninsula what unifying ideology would the Kim regime be left with to justify their rule?
South Korea, which hosts this year's APEC summit, has invited Vladimir Putin to attend the event, according to Russian state media TASS, citing the Russian foreign ministry.
This would be condemnable if the world hadn't just seen Putin visiting Alaska.https://t.co/m73X3ZrAOV
I would be more impressed if Kim Jong-un came out and told his people the same thing about South Korea:
President Lee Jae Myung said South Korea will not seek to absorb North Korea for unification, in an address marking the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from 1910-45 Japanese colonial rule, Friday.
This conciliatory message is the latest in the Lee administration’s conciliatory overtures toward Pyongyang, signaling a commitment to peaceful dialogue and indicating a softer approach to inter-Korean relations.
“We affirm our respect for the North’s current system, aver that we will not pursue any form of unification by absorption and assert that we have no intention of engaging in hostile acts,” Lee emphasized in the speech.
