President Trump Did Not Trust Moon Jae-in — The GSOMIA Abandonment and the Abnormality of NHK’s Reporting

Published on August 26, 2019.
This article introduces a zakzak report stating that President Donald Trump harshly criticized South Korea’s Moon Jae-in administration at the G7 summit, while also criticizing South Korea’s explanation regarding its decision to abandon GSOMIA, the U.S. response, and NHK’s failure to report this major story.

August 26, 2019.
According to several government sources, immediately after finishing a discussion on the situation in Iran, Mr. Trump suddenly turned his eyes toward Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and denounced Mr. Moon.
“South Korea’s attitude is terrible… They are being looked down upon by Kim Jong-un!” Trump, enraged by Mr. Moon’s “betrayal,” harshly denounces him at the G7; senior U.S. official: “The abandonment of GSOMIA… South Korea’s explanation is a lie.”
The above is from www.zakzak.co.jp/soc/news/190826/for1908260011-n1.html.
Today I had not read the newspaper, so the first time I learned of this news was through an electronic letter from the editorial department of the monthly magazine Sound Argument.
I then checked the Sankei Shimbun, and that is the photograph below.
Here I introduce the full text from zakzak.
The 7 p.m. news and Watch 9 did not report this at all, because, to use Masayuki Takayama’s maxim, this was not an article by “the Asahi Shimbun, one of their fellow liars,” even though it was such a major article in the Sankei Shimbun.
The left-wing childish-ideology patients who control NHK’s news department surely do not read the Sankei Shimbun or the four monthly magazines.
After August five years ago, I personally experienced them explicitly saying of the above media, “Oh, you are on that side…,” but I will write about that another day.
The 7 p.m. news not only failed to mention this major report in the Sankei Shimbun at all, but instead showed the South Korean National Assembly in a large close-up and spent a long segment broadcasting the most foolish statement imaginable, that if Japan restored its treatment regarding exports, South Korea would restore GSOMIA.
It was as if the broadcast were coming from the Japanese branch office of KBS.
Its behavior showed that it was not for nothing that NHK had allowed KBS, according to Mr. Takayama, to be placed inside NHK Broadcasting Center in Shibuya, free of charge.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that, regarding China and South Korea, NHK is a branch office of each of them.
It is absolutely not Japan’s national broadcaster.
The people who control NHK’s news department are not Japanese either in mind or in heart.
The following is from www.zakzak.co.jp/soc/news/190826/for1908260011-n1.html.
There was a scene at the G7 summit, being held in France, in which U.S. President Donald Trump harshly denounced South Korea’s Moon Jae-in administration.
It appears that he could not tolerate such matters as the Moon administration’s grave act of betrayal in unilaterally deciding to abandon the General Security of Military Information Agreement, or GSOMIA, between Japan and South Korea, which is a foundation of security cooperation among Japan, the United States, and South Korea.
“South Korea’s attitude is terrible.
It is not wise.
They are being looked down upon by Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea!”
Mr. Trump is said to have made this statement at a meeting on diplomacy and security on the night of the 24th, the first day of the summit, or the morning of the 25th Japan time.
The Sankei Shimbun reported this in its morning edition on the 26th.
According to several government sources, immediately after finishing a discussion on the situation in Iran, Mr. Trump suddenly turned his eyes toward Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and denounced Mr. Moon.
Prime Minister Abe is said to have said nothing and merely smiled.
The Yomiuri Shimbun also reported in its morning edition the same day that Mr. Trump had said at the G7 leaders’ dinner on the night of the 24th that Mr. Moon was “a person who cannot be trusted.”
Prime Minister Abe and Mr. Trump are said to have confirmed, at the Japan-U.S. summit held in conjunction with the G7 on the 25th, that close cooperation among Japan, the United States, and South Korea is important for resolving North Korea’s “nuclear and missile issues.”
Mr. Trump’s initial remarks show that the “greatest obstacle” to that is the Moon administration, and that the decision to abandon GSOMIA could end up benefiting North Korea, as well as China and Russia.
Behind Mr. Trump’s anger, there also seems to be the Moon administration’s lie.
According to the Chosun Ilbo, Japanese-language edition, on the 24th, the Moon administration explained, in deciding to abandon GSOMIA, that it had “sought understanding from the United States in advance, and the United States had shown understanding.”
However, a senior official of the Trump administration reportedly told a reporter from the newspaper that this was “a lie” and that “clearly speaking, it is not a fact.
We protested here, to the South Korean Embassy in the United States, and to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul.”
The Moon administration was denounced by the leaders and senior officials of an allied country as “terrible,” “not wise,” “untrustworthy,” and “liars.”
The future of the U.S.-South Korea alliance has also become doubtful.

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