South Korea Is the Best Friend Trump Could Hope For

Back in June, many expected the summit between Moon Jae In, the newly elected president of South Korea, and President Donald Trump, to fail. Moon had to overcome the perception that he was anti-American, a lazy caricature based on the last liberal South Korean president Roh Moo Hyun, for whom Moon served as chief of staff. Then there was Trump, who, during his presidential campaign, had the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (KORUS FTA), signed in 2012, as a “catastrophic” deal that supposedly “destroyed 100,000 jobs” in the auto industry. Trump also that the U.S. military close its base in South Korea, all while North Korea was escalating tensions with nuclear weapon and long-range missile tests. Such contempt