US senator says Congress will review shipbuilding reforms after Lee-Trump summit

U.S. senator said Wednesday that Congress will review what legislative reforms may be needed to facilitate shipbuilding cooperation with Korea, based on the outcome of next week's summit between President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump. Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) made the remarks during a press availability in Seoul, days before Lee and Trump are set to hold their first summit in Washington on Monday (U.S. time), following a recent tariff agreement between the two countries. "There might be some reforms that can make it more efficient, speed the process, and we'll look at that appropriately," Kim said when asked about U.S. shipbuilding regulations prohibiting foreign involvement. "I cannot move forward until I have a sense of what comes out from the summit next week. So we'll see how that's structured and how the investment is laid out, and then we'll move with the appropriate level of urgency," he said. With the tariff deal, South Korea has proposed large-scale shipbuilding cooperation projects, dubbed "Make American Shipbuilding Great Again (MASGA)," to held restore the sluggiWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times