South Korea is weighing its options after U.S. President Donald Trump urged countries to join the U.S. campaign to unblock shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, as the Asian ally remains wary of getting drawn into the Iran conflict.
¡°We will continue to communicate closely with the U.S. while carefully reviewing the situation before making a decision,¡± South Korea¡¯s Defense Ministry said in a statement, referring to Trump¡¯s social media post over the weekend.
Trump said on Saturday he hoped countries including China, France, Japan, South Korea and the U.K. would send ships to join the effort to reopen the key waterway for oil shipments. He later warned in a Financial Times interview that he could delay his planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and that Washington¡¯s European allies would face a ¡°very bad¡± future should they fail to help on Hormuz.
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