US, South Korean Presidents Agree to Adjust Deal on Ballistic Missiles

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US President Donald Trump and South Korea’s Moon Jae-in agreed,Friday, to adjust a bilateral deadl that restricts Seoul’s ballistic missile abilities after the North’s recent launch.

South Korean presidential spokesman Park Soo-hyun said that the two leaders had “reached an agreement in principle to revise the ‘missile guideline’.”

The 1979 guideline was last afflicted five years ago to expand the allowed range of South Korean ballistic missiles to almost 500 miles and raise their payload to 1,100 pounds.

Park reportedly stated Trump had agreed to reduplicate the weight cap to reach the maximum payload as South Korea had wished . The White House said earlier the US president  in addition,  confirmed planned South Korean purchases of billions of dollars in US military equipment to counter the North.

The  White House , for its part, said in a statement that Trump and Moon spoke on the phone Friday about North Korean’s “continued destabilizing and escalatory behavior.”

According to the stataement, “The two leaders agreed to support our coalition through defense cooperation and to support South Korea’s defense abilities,”.

“President Trump supplied his conceptual approval of planned purchasing by South Korea of billions of dollars in American military equipment.”