US President Donald Trump has threatened to “hold up” a new trade pact with South Korea in order to persuade Seoul to do more to help denuclearise North Korea.
The comments are likely to rile South Korea — a longstanding US ally and a vocal advocate of removing the nuclear threat from the Korean peninsula.
It is not the first time the US leader has attempted to leverage trade deals in order to extract geopolitical support from allies.
Earlier this month, he said he was working on a security agreement with Australia so that the US would not “have to impose steel or aluminium tariffs on our ally”.
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