Trump Orders Cuts to US-South Korea Drills, Calls Them Hostile to North Korea
🪖 INDO-PACIFIC — Trump gifts Pyongyang a concession while Hormuz burns. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Reducing Korea drills is a unilateral concession to Kim with no reciprocal ask — the same playbook Trump used in 2018, which yielded nothing. With US carriers stretched across the Arabian Sea and SPR at 1983 lows, signaling weakness in a second theater tells Beijing, Tehran, and Pyongyang that Washington's bandwidth has limits.
