South Korea’s leader rejects Trumps call for help in the war against Iran
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Review Sept 24, 2026
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This is a pivotal moment in history as South Korea tells Trump it is done with being a vassal for American imperialist wars.
KJ Noh notes in this interview for Strategic Culture Foundation that South Korea’s defiance of U.S. power is resonating with growing resistance among other nations towards Washington’s bullying and warmongering.
President Lee Jae-myung of South Korea gave a televised nationwide address last week declaring that his country would not be deploying military forces to the Strait of Hormuz.
That announcement followed weeks of speculation that South Korea would cave to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been arm-twisting Seoul and other allies to send military support for his seven-month war on Iran. A war that is plunging the global and American economy into turmoil and could derail his presidency in the U.S. mid-term elections.
Geopolitical commentator KJ Noh says the public rejection of Trump’s appeal by South Korea is a major blow to Washington’s international image.
He notes that the Republic of Korea has been a loyal vassal of the United States, always sending its troops to fight American wars. South Korean soldiers have deployed in every U.S. overseas war from Vietnam to Iraq.
“The Korean people are saying they do not want to be cannon fodder for any more U.S. wars,” comments KJ Noh.
He adds that this defiance will inspire other nations to reject American hegemony.
However, KJ Noh warns that Washington is exerting severe pressure on South Korea to bend the knee. “South Korea is a living example of the maxim that to be an enemy of America is dangerous, but to be an ally is fatal.”
Trump is in a deep mess of his own making as a result of his criminal war against Iran, which he is losing. He needs “allies” to bail him out by supplying weapons and military personnel to act as cannon fodder.
Over the past eight decades, South Korea would have bent over and loyally obliged. But not anymore, it seems. The Korean people have had enough of being Uncle Sam’s vassal.
Korean defiance is a rallying call for global repudiation of American imperialism.
good ! hope Iran question will unite North + South Korea
atleast in this matter . ASIA UNITE !
The guy knows this is a fake war and that DT is not paying Korea enough money to be prison guards.
Ed Sheeran’s longtime pal Jordan Stephens savages singer over Macklemore row
” ypu cannot sit on the fence when the IDF are murdering people ”
Story by Juliet Conway • 22h • 4 min read Ed Sheeran’s longtime pal Jordan Stephens has savaged the singer over his handling of the Macklemore row, declaring ‘every time he speaks it gets worse.’
the Rizzle Kicks star, 34, who has known Ed, 35, for more than 15 years, hit out at his friend’s response after rapper Macklemore, 43, was removed from the remaining dates of his US Loop tour by jewish pressure
Macklemore has since announced a string of Free Palestine gigs and will be performing concerts in Dublin, Paris and London, beginning on October 26, with proceeds ‘benefitting organisations supporting the Palestinian people and movement to stop the genocides’.
Jordan has now revealed that he had even contacted Ed privately as the controversy unfolded, and had felt ‘conflicted’ about discussing their friendship publicly.
‘The closeness with Ed goes insofar as we were wanting to give him space to respond and see if there was something to come from that response,’ Jordan said on his Miss Me? podcast on Thursday.
He added: ‘It’s very clear that in spite of the fact that Ed is a very kind person and has helped many of these artists with their career, it was unacceptable how he chose to respond to the starving people in palestine.
Trump was pushing kier starmer to send stupid Brits to fight iran
But the muslim council of Britain
said if he did that they would not be able to hold back muslim anger
and they have said they would tear the country apart,
like the black folk did in the london riots but 10 times worse
Starmer had to back down
Even if it means shutting down all trade with those two nations and any nation supporting them, and even if it takes WWIII “annihilating” the US and Israel in order to get at their criminal ruling class, that is the only RESOLVE we can have to STOP them, and to get the world back to state of law &order for peace and cooperation among diverse peoples and nations.
We must make our politicians do much, much more than just failing to join in with the joint American-Israeli terror tactics, illegal wars, and crimes against humanity. There must also be universal condemnation of their nations and demands for Israel to get out out of Lebanon and the occupied territories. and to restore all the lands to the displaced and to compensate them for any losses. Also, the demand has to be loud and clear for both the US & Israel to cease hostilities against Iran and compensate their people for all losses and damages from the unjust war. They also have to make it clear to everyone that unless the US and Israel comply with these demands our nations will support and defend Iran and the non-Jewish people of the Levant.
Failing to do so, our leaders in their neutrality are essentially on the side of the thugs and criminals running both the US and Israel, and likely also the UK, and they also have to be regarded as enemies of humanity.
If anyone thinks we can let the monsters take the Levant piece by piece from the inhabitants, and that Iran would be better off in the hands of the US and Israel, and that we should just look the other way, as most Jews and Americans are doing, then they are also a big part of the problem in perpetrating the very evils before all of us. That is what we have done since the creation of Israel in 1948 and why the evil has only metastasized.
If anyone thinks our nations outside of the US and Israel should not stand up to them, nor that we should not and threaten to cut off all diplomatic and trade relations with them with them, or threaten to nationalize any American and Israeli assets on our nations’ soil, then they also are on the side of the same monsters.
If you think the US and Israel are just too big and powerful for any REAL ACTION AGAINST THEM then you also are part of the problem, and you are an enabler. You are letting them get away with what they do without any real resistance or consequences. As they proceed to exterminate people and to annihilated one nation after another, all you are doing us to let them get stronger and more powerful, eventually to exterminate and annihilate others in their way. They are truly nations which are run by criminals, in which their own people willingly do their bidding simply because they believe their nations have the money and power to do anything they want. They are nations whose people will do nothing to stop the evils, and they ought to bear all of the consequences.
S. Korea is an occupied country, just like any other where Murican troops frolic around. Most South Koreans do not like America (unless they feed of them in one way or another), its politics and their troops on their home soil – for protection against “North Korean communists”. Working there in the mid eighties students rather would have reunited with their North Korean brothers than being hosts for American troops thanks to S. Korean politics. Butt, as usual compromises have to be made – by Go-vermins that hate their own people they rule!
So glad that now some 40 years later “South Korea’s leader rejects Trumps call for help in the war against Iran”. Wow! What progress!!!!