SEOUL: Two weeks after United States President Donald Trump and South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung met and introduced they’d resolved months of negotiations over tariffs and safety points, the 2 sides have but to launch any settlement on paper.
South Korean officers say the delay seems to centre on discussions over their request for Washington’s blessing to build a nuclear-powered submarine, which Lee raised publicly when he met Trump on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific discussion board in South Korea final month.
After that assembly, officers stated they might shortly launch a factsheet outlining an settlement on safety points, together with the submarine, in addition to a commerce deal first introduced on the first Trump-Lee summit in July, below which South Korea would shovel hundreds of billions of dollars into US tasks in alternate for decrease tariffs.
“For the reason that matter of constructing a nuclear-powered submarine has been raised, every of the US departments appears to want a while to regulate their opinions,” South Korean Defence Minister Ahn stated in an interview with native broadcaster KBS on Sunday (Nov 9).
Washington has permitted Seoul’s use of nuclear gas for the submarine however the factsheet is taking longer to finalise as a result of related US departments are nonetheless giving suggestions, and there proceed to be changes on the wording, a senior South Korean presidential official stated on Friday.
The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
