“When I called recently, the president of South Korea … I said, ‘Would you like to give us a little hand — we don’t need help with Iran, but if you’d like, give us a hand with Iran’ — he said, ‘no thanks,’ and I said, ‘What do you mean? We have 39,000 soldiers over there, guarding you from Kim Jong Un, your next door neighbor, and you’re not going to help us on a very easy military operation in Iran? That’s strange,’”

Donald Trump · said 2026-08-17 · reported 2026-08-17

Trump recounts to reporters in the Oval Office his call with South Korea's president about assistance with Iran.