{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/reed-condemns-trumps-appeasement-of-kim-jong-un", "Reed Condemns Trump\u2019s Appeasement of Kim Jong Un", "2026-08-17", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "Senate", "RI", "Jack Reed", "R000122", "www.reed.senate.gov", "jackreed", "https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases", "scraper", "PROVIDENCE, RI -- Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, rebuked President Donald Trump for his last minute decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea.\n\nReed criticized Trump for appearing to appease North Korea\u2019s dictator Kim Jong Un by posting a social media statement directing U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to scale back joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea. President Trump expressed admiration for Kim Jong Un and criticized South Korea for declining to take part in his war of choice with Iran.\n\nSenator Reed stated:\n\n\u201cThis is another inane, haphazard decision by President Trump and his chaotic administration. America\u2019s alliances are built on trust and strength. When President Trump cuts military exercises to flatter a dictator or punishes South Korea for declining to join a war he started, all of our allies \u2013 and adversaries \u2013 think that America\u2019s commitments are negotiable. Kim Jong Un has won a propaganda victory and South Korea, one of our strongest allies, has been punished for no reason beyond Trump\u2019s ego. China and Russia are watching how easily this President abandons America\u2019s allies, and they will remember it the next time they test us.\u201d\n\nThe U.S. and South Korea have been conducting joint military exercises together since the 1950s in an effort to deter future aggression by North Korea, and to send a signal of strength and deterrence to America\u2019s adversaries.\n\nSenator Reed also noted that President Trump\u2019s social media post contradicted a recent warning from NORTHCOM Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. Joseph Jarrard, who last week noted: \u201cNorth Koreans have successfully flight-tested ICBMs with enough boost to deliver a nuclear payload anywhere in North America.\u201d", 1, "2026-08-18T05:27:41Z", "2026-08-18T05:29:06Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/reed-condemns-trumps-appeasement-of-kim-jong-un"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6347160562872887, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}