washington – President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Japan and South Korea subsequent month for a summit at Camp David, the White House introduced Friday.
The August 18 assembly with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is the most recent signal of warming relations between their nations as they transfer to put aside generations of tensions and distrust whereas the United States deepens its dedication to Asia.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned in a press release that the leaders “will talk about increasing trilateral cooperation throughout the Indo-Pacific and past.’ Expected subjects embody the risk posed by North Korea and ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and with the Pacific islands.
The invitation spun out of a short photo-op that the three leaders had on the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, Japan, in May. The Biden administration has been urging stronger financial and protection ties between South Korea and Japan because it appears to be like to bolster the area in opposition to China’s assertive territorial strikes, in addition to to safe their cooperation to assist Ukraine combat off Russia’s invasion.