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Trump again says Alaska LNG will supply South Korea and Japan as he campaigns for senator
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Trump again says Alaska LNG will supply South Korea and Japan as he campaigns for senator

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Donald Trump said South Korea, Japan and other countries would obtain fuel and oil from Alaska and help build related pipeline infrastructure.
  • He has repeatedly presented the Alaska LNG project as an achievement of his second administration and claimed the two Asian countries would provide funding.
  • The remarks came as Trump backed Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan ahead of the November midterm election and attacked a same-name Republican challenger.

Donald Trump has once again presented Alaska’s energy development as a major achievement, saying South Korea, Japan and other countries will go to Alaska for fuel and oil and take part in building pipelines.

No one has helped Alaska as much as Donald Trump. We invested billions of dollars and created trillions of dollars in value.

— Donald TrumpTrump used the statement to promote his record on Alaska energy development.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on the 2nd, Trump said no one had helped Alaska as much as Donald Trump. He claimed that his administration had invested billions of dollars and created trillions of dollars in value. He added that South Korea, Japan and many other countries would now handle fuel and oil shipments from Alaska and related construction.

Trump has repeatedly said South Korea and Japan would finance an Alaska liquefied natural gas project. At a news conference marking his first anniversary in office in January, he said his administration had launched a large-scale project to export natural gas to Asia. He also claimed that trade agreements with South Korea and Japan would bring in unprecedented levels of funding. His comments drew controversy because they treated the use of part of the countries’ US investment commitments for the Alaska LNG project as settled.

South Korea, Japan and many other countries will now go to Alaska to load fuel and oil, build pipelines and do everything else.

— Donald TrumpHe described the role he expects Asian countries to play in Alaska’s energy plans.

The latest remarks came while Trump was supporting the reelection campaign of Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan ahead of the November midterm elections. Trump said he would visit Alaska to campaign for Sullivan, amid concern that votes could split after another Republican with the same name reached the general election.

We started a massive Alaska LNG development project to export natural gas to Asia.

— Donald TrumpTrump referred to the project at his January anniversary news conference.

The incumbent is Dan S. Sullivan. The other candidate, Dan J. Sullivan, is a retired teacher who registered as a Republican candidate three days before the June filing deadline and finished among the top four in last month’s primary. Trump denounced him as “a fake Dan Sullivan put forward by the Democrats.”

A fake Dan Sullivan put forward by the Democrats.

— Donald TrumpHe attacked Dan J. Sullivan, a same-name Republican challenger to the incumbent senator.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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