🇺🇸 🇰🇷Trump threatened double tariffs if South Korea rejects investment in Alaska’s liquefied natural gas pipeline project.

The reported threat explicitly links tariffs to an energy-infrastructure investment decision. Financial_Express, citing reporting from The Guardian and The Korea Times through Global Times (环球网), says Trump made the statement on October 2.

The condition was South Korea’s agreement to invest in an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipeline project. The message describes the threat as following Trump’s unilateral announcement of a South Korean investment project, but does not establish that South Korea had accepted binding investment terms.

The available evidence supports a conditional threat, not an implemented tariff change or closed financing. Neither the applicable base tariff rate, the resulting tariff schedule, nor an investment amount for this pipeline is provided; the separate worldnews message says only that Trump threatened to charge South Korea “more.”