U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday South Korea should be paying for its own military protection and suggested the U.S. ally needed to pay more for the U.S. troop presence there, a day after saying he planned to impose a 25 percent tariff on its imports.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that South Korea needed to pay for its own military, suggesting the U.S. ally needed to pay more for having American security guarantees.

The country’s new president, in office for a little over a month, had just dispatched his senior deputies to Washington to try to work out a trade deal.