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Looks like South Korea's president is making sure he has something to tell Trump when he congratulates him on his victory.
Why some NATO members are now feeling nervous about the change of president in the White House.
"Congratulations on your victory, Donald Trump! (...) We are now spending 3.5 percent of GDP on our defense." That was the first reaction from Lithuania's president to the US election.
"This year, the Czech Republic will invest 2 percent of GDP in its defense," the Czech president wrote in a letter to Trump last week.
Suddenly, everyone seems to want to tell the newly elected president how much they spend on their defense. Obviously, there is concern that Trump would condition the protection from the United States. And it's not completely taken out of thin air.
In February, during an election rally in South Carolina, Donald Trump said that a president from another NATO country stood up during a meeting and asked him if the United States would come to the defense in case Russia attacked and his country did not spend enough money on defense.
"No, I wouldn't protect you. I would even encourage them to do whatever the hell they want," Trump said of responding to the president of the unnamed NATO country. Watch the feature on SVT News.
President Yoon Suk-yeol imposed martial law in South Korea. South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol, who belongs to the conservative PPP, in an appearance on Tuesday accused the country's opposition of controlling the country's parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities. "In order to secure South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea's communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements, Yoon justified the decision to impose martial law in the country in a televised speech.
According to the martial law, all political activity was then banned. Media outlets and publishers were legally under state control, and all health care workers were ordered back to their jobs. The South Korean parliament is controlled by the opposition. Since Yoon took office as president in 2022, he has therefore had difficulty getting his policies through. Watch the feature on SVT News.