{"id":331417,"date":"2026-09-25T06:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331417"},"modified":"2026-09-27T07:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:12:35","slug":"cannon-fodder-no-more-south-korea-rejects-trumps-pressure-to-join-his-criminal-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331417","title":{"rendered":"Cannon fodder no more\u2026 South Korea rejects Trump\u2019s pressure to join his criminal war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">South Korea\u2019s leader rejects Trumps call for help in the war against Iran<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Finian Cunningham \u2013 Strategic Review Sept 24, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ie7DDUwE-8?si=xkBrx95b6-DzPNj3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>This is a pivotal moment in history as South Korea tells Trump it is done with being a vassal for American imperialist wars.<\/p>\n<p>KJ Noh notes in this interview for Strategic Culture Foundation that South Korea\u2019s defiance of U.S. power is resonating with growing resistance among other nations towards Washington\u2019s bullying and warmongering.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Geopolitical commentator KJ Noh says the public rejection of Trump\u2019s appeal by South Korea is a major blow to Washington\u2019s international image.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Korean people are saying they do not want to be cannon fodder for any more U.S. wars,\u201d comments KJ Noh.<\/p>\n<p>He adds that this defiance will inspire other nations to reject American hegemony.<\/p>\n<p>However, KJ Noh warns that Washington is exerting severe pressure on South Korea to bend the knee. \u201cSouth Korea is a living example of the maxim that to be an enemy of America is dangerous, but to be an ally is fatal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201callies\u201d to bail him out by supplying weapons and military personnel to act as cannon fodder.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s vassal.<\/p>\n<p>Korean defiance is a rallying call for global repudiation of American imperialism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/strategic-culture.su\/news\/2026\/09\/24\/cannon-fodder-no-more-south-korea-rejects-trump-pressure-join-his-criminal-war-iran\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean soldiers have deployed in every U.S. overseas war from Vietnam to Iraq. Last week that changed when President Lee Jae-myung declared that South Korea would not be deploying its military forces to the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":331419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331420,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331417\/revisions\/331420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/331419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}