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underpants

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4. Hold it. The US proposed an increase from $9M to $5BILLION?

Reply to soryang (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2020, 09:41 PM

Apr 2020

That wouldn’t be considered a reasonable offer in court I wouldn’t think

“That’s not a small amount of money even if we did offer a 13 percent hike,” the South Korean official said, adding that while it fell short of the $5 billion floated by the United States, “to us, that was a non-starter in the first place.”

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unprecedented landslide in favor of Moon's democratic party soryang Apr 2020 #2

Trump's negotiations always backfire. He has no idea how to do it. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #3

Hold it. The US proposed an increase from $9M to $5BILLION? underpants Apr 2020 #4

i think it was about 920 million soryang Apr 2020 #7

Ok. I missed two numbers. My bad. underpants Apr 2020 #8

Yes. nt soryang Apr 2020 #9

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