What did Donald Trump claim about foreign policy on 12 Feb 2019?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
They agreed, at my request—and working with Secretary Pompeo and John Bolton—they agreed to pay, yesterday, $500 million more toward their defense. Five-hundred million, with a couple of phone calls. … And they pay—they were paying about $500 million for $5 billion worth of protection. And we have to do better than that. So they've agreed to pay $500 million more.
Not $500 million more. That would have doubled the roughly $500 million he said they paid, but the deal set South Korea's 2019 contribution at 1.0389 trillion won, an 8.2 percent increase.
The deal initialed on Feb. 10, 2019 set South Korea's total contribution for 2019 at 1.0389 trillion won, which South Korea described as an 8.2 percent increase, the same level as its 2019 defense budget increase (South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Feb. 10, 2019).
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- Cabinet meeting at the White House, Washington, D.C.
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