There has been testimony that US President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw US troops from South Korea if they did not receive $5 billion in costs for the presence of US troops in Korea.

Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton said in a memoir ``room where it happened'' scheduled to be published tomorrow time, President Trump has threatened to withdraw US troops several times over the issue of defense spending.

According to the main contents of the memoir, President Trump pointed to the ROK-US joint training in South Korea during a meeting on the Afghanistan issue in August of last year. "If you can't get a billion dollar deal, get out of there."

Even after the training was a mock exercise at the time and President Trump said, "I'm trying to make peace with a mentally ill person," said former secretary Bolton, after referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

The war game he mentioned seems to refer to the Korea-US Combined Forces Command training in August last year.

President Trump stressed, "We are losing $38 billion in trade in Korea. Let's get out of there." At the time, we also asked for the US-ROK training, "End in two days. Do not extend a day."

Earlier, when President Bolton visited Korea and Japan to negotiate defense contributions in July of the same year and returned to Washington DC to report the results, President Trump gained "8 billion dollars (Japan) and 5 billion dollars (Korea), respectively. "It's a threat to withdraw all US troops."

He added, "It will put you in a very strong bargaining position."

In particular, after receiving additional reports on North Korea's missile launch, "This is a good time to ask for money," and said, "John (former former Bolton) brought $1 billion this year, and the missiles will get $5 billion." I said it in the memoir.

"One of the issues that has plagued our relationship with Korea (and Japan and European allies) is the issue of cost sharing for countries that host US bases," Bolton said in a book. "I was there to protect Korea," said President Trump.

However, President Trump introduced that US military bases had long thought that they would have to pay an additional '50%' for the base cost.

"I was afraid that his ultimate threat to withdraw US troops from a country that doesn't pay as much as Trump thinks is a reasonable amount," said Bolton, was trying to devise a strategy to stop it. .

Regarding the cost sharing for the US military base, "the amount and method were varied, and there was no practical agreement on how much the actual cost would be." I could do it.”

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