<figure id="attachment_3138820" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3138820" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3138820" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/c7e7dee4-donald-trump-4.jpg" alt="Donald Trump" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3138820" class="wp-caption-text">US President Donald Trump suggested that a &#8216;purge or revolution&#8217; is underway in South Korea. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that a &#8220;purge or revolution&#8221; was underway in South Korea, hours before new president Lee Jae Myung was due at the White House.
&#8220;WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA? Seems like a Purge or Revolution. We can&#8217;t have that and do business there,&#8221; Trump posted.
He did not specify to what he was referring but said he would bring it up with Lee.
South Korean prosecutors on Sunday filed an arrest warrant for former prime minister Han Duck-soo, accusing him of aiding ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol in his short-lived imposition of martial law in December.
Yoon, a conservative with close ties with the US, was impeached after his strong-armed tactic to seize power, which he took after facing deadlock in parliament.
The martial law bid was a throwback to South Korea&#8217;s earlier era of military rule and was swiftly reversed after an impromptu popular revolt.
Trump has tested the limits of his own presidential authority, sending troops into the capital Washington in what he called an effort to fight crime and earlier sending forces into Los Angeles after demonstrations against his crackdown on immigration.
Lee comes from South Korea&#8217;s left but has voiced eagerness to start a productive relationship with Trump.
The two presidents could see eye-to-eye on North Korea.
Trump in his first term met three times with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and Lee is an advocate of outreach with the North.
It is not the first time Trump has surprised an unsuspecting foreign leader with a disputable claim about their domestic policies.
In May, Trump ambushed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in a White House meeting by alleging a &#8220;genocide&#8221; against white farmers by the post-apartheid government, which denies any such campaign.

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