AGENCIES / OSAKA
US President Donald Trump has termed the Japan-US Security Treaty unfair and wanted it to be changed, but denies any intention to scrap the agreement right now.
Trump was speaking to media persons in Japanese city of Osaka on Saturday at the end of the Group of 20 summit.
Responding to a media query, Trump said he is not thinking about scrapping the treaty at all. He said he is “just saying it is an unfair agreement.”
Trump noted that if someone attacks Japan, the United States would be locked in a battle and committed to fight for Japan, but that if someone were to attack the US, Japan would not have to fight.
He said he told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the security pact has to be changed.