I'm John Bachelor. Gordon Chang at Gordon Chi Chang joins me, The Koreas. A headline in the Korea Times.

Gordon, a very good day to you. Soul denies classified info leak after U.S. protest ministers North Korea nuclear facility remarks.

Needs a translation. Soul is not a friendly power, as I recall, you're reporting very

carefully over these months. And the North Koreans have a nuclear weapons program. So help me

understand this headline. It's alarming, but who is on the on-side, who is off-site here?

Good day to you. Good day, John. The United States is upset

that South Korea's unification minister, Chung-Yung-dong, in a National Assembly hearing last month,

disclosed the location of a third North Korean nuclear weapons facility, Kusong. And so the South

Koreans say, well, this was already public information. The United States says that's not true.

This is another irritant between Washington and Seoul, because Seoul's government has been moving

away from the United States.

And remember, we have a mutual defense treaty with regard to South Korea.

So this is understood in Washington as hostile, as annoying, as threatening? How do they think of it,

Gordon? I think all three, clearly an irritant in an already troubled relationship.

And it's troubled because South Korea's president is very pro-North Korea, very pro-China, very anti-America.

We don't know exactly what he thinks, only he does, but some of the things he has said are extremely anti-American and betray a hate of our country.

We welcome our colleague, Morris Tan, to help us with this puzzle.

Morris is former U.S. ambassador at large for global criminal justice.

He's a leader of the international election monitoring.

He was a leader of the international election monitoring team for 2025 that saw the election of this apparently irritating

regime in Seoul, the Blue House. Morris, a good day to you. This is a puzzle.

Good day to you as well. And there are many other pieces to this puzzle

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