SEOUL: Buffeted by the currents of diplomacy, South Korea is sometimes described as a “shrimp between two whales”, and US president Donald Trump has touched nerves with remarks that the peninsula “used to be part of China.”

The comments came after Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida.

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