What’s Going On?… South Korean Army Gave 1,600 Recruits Training Denouncing President Trump During Joint Drills With U.S.

The South Korean President visited President Trump in the White House in late August. – White House screengrab

From our trusted source in South Korea

For decades, South Korea has been a trusted US ally depending on US might to secure its democratic future.

But that respect for America is not what it used to be as the current government cozies up more and more with the Chi-coms.

The former president is in prison serving two life terms for challenging what many believe was a stolen election. Now, the new government is openly attacking US President Donald Trump.

This won’t end well for Korea. Why would they expect the US to come to their aid during an emergency when they openly slander our president?

Training Criticizing “President Trump” During ROK-US Joint Exercizes.
Via Maeil Shinmun

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — For years, South Korea’s legacy media have faced criticism for repeatedly presenting President Donald Trump to the Korean public through distorted or overwhelmingly negative coverage. Now, anti-Trump messaging has surfaced in an even more troubling place — inside the South Korean military.

While American and South Korean forces were conducting Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS), one of their most important annual joint military exercises, approximately 1,600 new South Korean Army recruits were given training that included prepared material denouncing President Trump.

The training was conducted on August 20 and 27 at the Korea Army Training Center in Nonsan. It was officially presented as education designed to promote gender awareness and mutual respect within the military.

But the prepared presentation included a section titled “Toxic Men Are the Cause of War.”

The material used remarks by Spanish actor Javier Bardem attacking President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over what he described as the “toxic masculinity” of powerful male leaders.

Those remarks and related articles were incorporated into the presentation shown to approximately 1,600 Army recruits.

President Trump was placed alongside Putin and Netanyahu in material connecting “toxic masculinity” with war and mass casualties.

And this was not an instructor making a spontaneous political comment in the classroom.

The material had been prepared in advance and incorporated into the presentation used for the Army training.

The timing makes the episode even more striking.

As American troops trained alongside South Korean forces under Ulchi Freedom Shield, South Korean recruits were simultaneously being shown prepared material denouncing the sitting President of the United States.

The United States maintains approximately 28,500 troops in South Korea and remains South Korea’s principal military ally.

The incident became public after the training materials were obtained from the Ministry of National Defense and disclosed in South Korea.

The Army confirmed that the training had taken place and acknowledged that some of the material could create unnecessary misunderstanding unrelated to the stated purpose of the program.

The instructor said she did not know that the lectures coincided with the U.S.-ROK joint military exercise and said she would be more careful in the future.

But the disclosure goes beyond the timing of a single lecture.

South Koreans have already been exposed to years of deeply negative and, critics argue, distorted portrayals of President Trump in the country’s legacy media. Now material denouncing Trump has appeared inside an official Army training program for 1,600 new soldiers — at the very moment South Korean and American forces were training together as allies.

The immediate question is how political material targeting the sitting U.S. president was allowed into an official South Korean Army training program in the first place.

Via escargot

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