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## Video: Trump Threatens to Leverage South Korea Trade Deal in North Korea Talks

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_Published 2018-03-30. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to hold up the trade agreement his administration finalized this week with South Korea in an effort to gain more leverage in potential talks with North Korea._


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## Transcript

Just this week, we secured a wonderful deal with South Korea. We were in a deal that was a horror show. It was gonna produce 200, 000 jobs. And it did, for them. That was a Hillary Clinton special, I hate to say. [ LAUGH ] This will produce 200, 000 jobs, she was right, but it was for them, it wasn't for us. So we've redone it. And that's gonna level the playing field on steel and cars and trucks coming into this country. And I may hold it up, till after a deal is made with North Korea. Does everybody understand that. Do you know why, right? Do you know why? Because it's a very strong card. And I wanna make sure everyone is treated fairly.

And we're moving along very nicely with North Korea. We'll see what happens. Certainly the rhetoric has calmed down just a little bit. Would you say? Some. [ LAUGH ] Would you say? And we'll see how it all turns out, maybe it'll be good and maybe it won't and if it's no good we're walking and if it's good we will embrace it. But it's gonna be very interesting over the next period of time and South Korea has been wonderful, but we'll probably hold that deal up for a little while, see how it all plays out.

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