US president’s abrupt order to scale back joint exercises with Seoul is meant to ‘flatter’ North Korea’s dictator, top Democrat says US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump’s move to gut Washington’s 73-year-old military alliance with Seoul has been called “inane” and “shortsighted” as law...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/trump-south-korea-alliance)