Kim Young Sam

But here Trump has a precedent: Bill Clinton also didn’t bother to consult South Korean president Kim Young Sam when drawing up plans for a preemptive strike in June 1994.

Lee received a pardon from then-President Kim Young Sam a year later.

Kim Young Sam “didn’t show any goodwill toward North Korea” after his death, says Shin, and that angered Pyongyang.

On Thanksgiving, Clinton told Kim Young Sam by telephone that radical surgery was needed to attract foreign investors.

By November the embattled government of Kim Young Sam was refusing to explain to U.S. officials just how much money was left in its foreign-currency reserve.