South Korean President Lee to meet with Trump in Washington on Monday

South Korean President Lee to meet with Trump in Washington on Monday toggle caption Ahn Young-joon/AP SEOUL, South Korea — En route to his first summit with President Trump, South Korea’s president has pushed back against U.S. pressure to refocus his country’s 71-year-old military alliance with the U.S. away from deterring North Korea and toward countering China. “This is not an issue we can easily agree with,” Lee Jae-myung told reporters during his flight to Washington, D.C., hinting at the challenges waiting for him at the White House. The Trump administration is calling for modernizing the 71-year-old U.S.-South Korea alliance,…