South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Wednesday that officials in his country were not aware of Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military operations between Washington, D.C., and Seoul before the U.S. president announced it on Truth Social.

“Neither our government nor U.S. officials knew what President Trump wrote on his Truth Social,” Cho said during a meeting of South Korea’s National Assembly Committee on Foreign Affairs and Unification.

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