It is said that President Trump wanted to withdraw US troops in Korea and told them to take out US troops.



According to the report on the 10th (local time) of USA Today in the United States, a copy of the new book ``Rage'' by Bob Woodward, a special reporter for ``Watergate,'' scheduled for publication next week, Woodward described that President Trump had made such a remark.



President Trump complained that the United States has become a boon for NATO members and other allies such as South Korea and that the United States bears military obligations around the world.



The possibility of the dissolution of the US allies was the subject of discussion between the Trump administration's first defense secretary, James Mathis, and then-Daniel Director Dan Kotz.



In one case, Woodward wrote, President Trump wanted to get US troops out of Afghanistan and South Korea.



Woodward said, "President Trump ordered'Get them out!'"



But Secretary Mattis told Director Cots, "It's crazy," and "It's dangerous."



In an interview with Woodward, President Trump told Woodward that "we are protecting South Korea from North Korea and they are making huge sums of television, ships, and everything else."



"They make a lot of money. We cost 10 billion dollars. We are Hogu."



Woodward also wrote in the book that after President Trump abruptly canceled military training with South Korea in an attempt to please North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Secretary Mathis expressed concern over messages to China, Russia and North Korea.



"What we do is really show how to destroy the United States," said Mathis.



"That's what we show them. How to isolate us from all alliances. How to break us down. It's working very well. We're proclaiming war against each other inside the United States." It's actually working against us now.”



Woodward wrote that during his days as Secretary of Defense, Secretary Mathis went to church to pray for his country, amidst President Trump's remarks ranging from threats to North Korea armed with nuclear weapons to attacks on NATO and other US allies.



President Trump had questioned NATO's values ​​with Mattis when he interviewed for the appointment of defense secretary right after he was elected, Woodward said.



Woodward pointed out that "President Trump has made personal impulse a ruling principle in the presidency."



President Trump has expressed dissatisfaction with the excessive burden of defense costs in the United States since his days as a presidential candidate, and has said he will bring US troops stationed abroad, saying that he will no longer be able to become the'police of the world' after taking office.



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