Colonel Grant Newsham assesses South Korea's leftist President Yoon Suk Yeol, describing him as pro-China and anti-US, despite his vow to increase defense spending. Newsham views this spending partly as a tactical ploy to avoid reliance on US troops. Sep

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

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Colonel Grant Newsham assesses South Korea's leftist President Yoon Suk Yeol, describing him as pro-China and anti-US, despite his vow to increase defense spending. Newsham views this spending partly as a tactical ploy to avoid reliance on US troops. Separately, he highlights Chinese influence and rampant corruption in the US territory of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which is brazenly seeking $100 million from the USdespite $1.6 billion having vanished.
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0:30.1	This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.
0:36.9	I welcome Grant Nushe, United States Marine Corps retired colonel. most importantly the author of when China attacks,
0:39.3	a way to imagine the future we're now living with the aggression by the People's Republic of China.
0:46.3	The Trump administration adds a twist in the road.
0:50.3	However, we come first to the new government in Seoul.
1:02.2	The election left everybody confident that there was a new left-wing president at the Blue House.
1:04.8	His name is Li Jong-Ji Myeong.
1:09.3	However, it didn't give me to understand this next headline.
1:14.4	South Korea raises military spending by most and more than 15 years post the Financial Times the pink paper out of London in these last hours.
1:20.3	President E.J. Myeong vows to step up defense budget
1:24.5	following U.S. pressure on Asian allies.
1:27.8	Grant, a very good day to you. Your piece is very helpful to understand.
1:31.6	We've got a number of mysteries here to put all together, dots on the canvas and how they
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