Trump Pushes South Korea Into Alaska LNG, But Seoul Sees Costly Risk
President Donald Trump is pressing South Korea to deepen involvement in the proposed Alaska LNG project as part of a broader push to expand U.S. energy exports. Seoul, however, remains cautious, weighing the project’s high capital costs, long timeline and uncertain commercial returns against its energy security needs. The result is a familiar trans-Pacific tension: strategic alignment on paper, but hard-nosed economics in practice.
