Korean companies have invested 114 billion dollars in the United States in the last three years, creating tens of thousands of American jobs and helping to rebuild our manufacturing base in the United States. Korea, Korean companies, and the Korean people have put “all their chips” on the United States and the benefits for our country are many. To encourage Korea to continue to place its bet on us and to chart its future with us, and not with Europe, Southeast Asia, or even China, in a way that is most beneficial to the American people, and the U.S. economy, the next U.S. president and Congress, could make long-discussed changes that would boost the relationship with Korea to new heights, make our country safer, the alliance more robust, and create more new jobs in the United States.
First, the United States could repeal its 232 steel tariffs and quota on South Korea. The Peterson …