00:00They would say, but we gave you land.
00:01I said, no, you didn't.
00:02You leased us land.
00:03There's a big difference between giving and leasing.
00:06I would like to see if we could get rid of the lease
00:08and get ownership of the land
00:11where we have a massive military base.
00:13Enough.
00:15And that was the end.
00:16That was the end.
00:18It ended very rapidly.
00:20But I think he had a good time.
00:23I look forward to meeting with Kim Jong-un
00:25in the appropriate future.
00:27Would you reduce the number of forces in South Korea
00:32so that the United States can have more flexibility
00:34in the region?
00:36Would you consider reducing the number of U.S.
00:38forces in South Korea so that the United States
00:41can have more flexibility in the region?
00:42The President.
00:43We've been friends and we're friends.
00:45Look, we have a lot of people over there.
00:48We have over 40,000 troops in South Korea.
00:50As you know, South Korea agreed to pay for that
00:54during my last term.
00:55And then when Biden came in, they complained to Biden
00:57that I wasn't a nice person.
00:59And he agreed not to pay.
01:01He gave up billions of dollars.
01:03We were getting paid billions of dollars.
01:05But then Biden ended that for whatever reason.
01:09It's unbelievable that he did.
01:11But we have a very good relationship militarily.
01:15They would say, but we gave you land.
01:17And they said, no, you didn't, you lease us land.
01:19There's a big difference between giving and leasing.
01:22And maybe one of the things I'd like to do is ask them
01:25to give us ownership of the land where we have the big fort.
01:28You know, we spent a lot of money building a fort.
01:30And there was a contribution made by South Korea.
01:33But I would like to see if we could get rid of the lease
01:35and get ownership of the land where we have a massive military base.
01:40Thank you, Mr. President.
01:45How are you planning to make – I also want to ask this question
01:48to Mr. President, please.
01:49Who are you with?
01:50I'm Song Mi-jin.
01:51I'm from South Korea's Arirang TV.
01:52Good.
01:53Thank you so much.
01:54Good.
01:55So as mentioned earlier, the United States
01:56is South Korea's most important and closest ally.
01:58So in this point of view, I would like to ask you
02:01and also President Lee, what do you think are the key ways
02:04to make the South Korea-U.S. alliance greater?
02:08Well, I think it's great now.
02:10I feel very warmly toward South Korea.
02:13I will tell you that I have a lot of people in business
02:17that I deal with that are from South Korea.
02:19They love Trump because they feel I've saved –
02:22I think you would have had a nuclear war if I weren't.
02:25I think you would have had a nuclear war,
02:27North Korea and South Korea.
02:29I think it would have been a disaster.
02:30You're only 60 miles away from Seoul.
02:32They don't even need nuclear.
02:33They have their cannons, you know, howitzers,
02:35and they have them buried in the mountain.
02:37You know what I'm talking about.
02:39And I think you would have had – if I didn't win that election,
02:43if Hillary Clinton – crooked Hillary – won that election,
02:46I think you would have had a nuclear war.
02:48It would have taken place.
02:49And it would have been horrendous for everybody, including them.
02:53It would have been very bad for them
02:54because we would have had to enter the picture.
02:57And we are the most powerful nuclear country in the world by far.
03:02Russia is second.
03:03China is third.
03:04China is going to catch, eventually, five or six years.
03:06They're working to catch.
03:07One of the things we're trying to do with Russia and with China
03:11is denuclearization.
03:15And it's very important.
03:16One of the things I discussed with President Putin the other day,
03:19it wasn't just that, it was also other things.
03:22And I think the denuclearization is a very – it's a big aim.
03:28But Russia is willing to do it,
03:30and I think China is going to be willing to do it, too.
03:33We can't let nuclear weapons proliferate.
03:37We have to stop nuclear weapons.
03:38The power is too great.
03:40Okay? Thank you.
03:41The Press Press, President, I'd like to ask you further question
03:43about South Korea and U.S. alliance.
03:45I'm Anna from The Korea Times.
03:47And I'd like to ask you about the trade deal that's on the table.
03:52You mentioned about the shipbuilding industry.
03:54And President Lee mentioned about the manufacturing industry.
03:57And what other areas or sectors that you intend to focus on this trade deal?
04:02Because Korea is bringing in many investments and trade jobs.
04:06And so I'd like to know the opinions of both,
04:10how to get a beneficial outcomes for both countries through this deal.
04:15Well, we're going to get along great because we really sort of need each other.
04:21We love what they do.
04:22We love their product.
04:23We love their ships.
04:24We love a lot of the things that they make.
04:27And they love what we have.
04:28We're dealing with them on Alaska having to do with the oil.
04:31They need – you need oil and we have it.
04:34So we have a big advantage in that way.
04:36We have a big – we have more oil and gas and coal and energy
04:39than any other country in the world by far.
04:42For whatever reason, God was very good to us.
04:45He gave us the greatest – we didn't use it.
04:47We started to use wind.
04:49Wind doesn't work.
04:50They started to use solar panels that took over the land all over the Midwest
04:54where the farmers said, what happened to my land?
04:56They'd have a 10-mile-by-10-mile solar field that they couldn't farm.
05:00The most – the most valuable land, farming land in the world,
05:04probably the most vibrant in the world.
05:06And they put solar plants all over the place.
05:08It's ridiculous.
05:09Big, massive black fields of solar that all comes out of China.
05:13Or plastic – all comes out of China.
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