Trump: US troops in Korea ‘not safe’ from North’s threat

Published May 1, 2017 5:51pm ET



President Trump said the roughly 28,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea are probably not safe from the threat of the North, according to a transcript of an unaired Fox News interview.

The president told a Fox interviewer that the forces deployed to the country are “brave” and understand the risk from Kim Jong Un’s burgeoning nuclear program.

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