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Journal | South Korea ~ The Fallout Begins

SOUTH KOREA - Republic of Korea

Seoul is the capital city of the Republic of Korea, known in the Western capitals as South Korea.

It is a free market western economy, highly prosperous and until the Trump era, was closely allied to the USA. Trump has strained relations with South Korea, and a low point came during the Trump presidency 2016-2020 when Trump was not categoric in America’s military assistance to Seoul in the event that North Korea tried its hand and invaded.

Much depends on what President-Elect Biden can and will do, to overcome this development and the mishandling of Korea by Trump and to safeguard the People of the Republic of Korea (South Korea).

And it is very worrying that Seoul is now torn between maintaining its ties with the USA or affirming its ties with China.

China will not give in on this. China’s foreign policy demands that the whole of the Korean peninsula be aligned with China and no other country.

All because of a man possessed with self-glory and reality TV show mentality, incapable of handling even security and intelligence briefs; a man who, even now, refuses to concede that he lost the 2020 election and takes American politics further into the mire by refusing the President-Elect and his team access to Intelligence.

Seventy million American people have much to answer for, both to the world in general as a result of the massive destabilisation that has taken place in international politics since 2016, and personally for, yet again, believing that Hollywood and TV celebrity is the cause celebre.

It is difficult to believe that in just four years, this situation could have been allowed to develop. It is even more worrying, that Americans could well bring Trump back to the Whitehouse.

 

9 June 2022
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022

First written on 13 November 2020

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.

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