Hours before South Korean president Lee Jae Mung was due to meet US president Donald Trump, a Truth Social post dropped.
Beginning with "WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA?" the post then referred to a "Purge or Revolution" - which many read as a reference to the prosecution of former president Yoon Suk Yeol who unsuccessfully attempted to impose martial law last December.
Speaking in the Oval Office before the meeting, Trump also said Seoul had conducted "raids on churches" and done "very bad things".
But Lee, a seasoned politician, successfully turned on the charm and averted what officials were fearing - a repeat of what happened to Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky or South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa.
Lee marveled at the new Oval Office decor and praised the personal rapport that the US president has with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
