As Joe Biden arrives in Seoul on Friday for his first trip to South Korea as U.S. president, he’ll be forced to confront a daunting challenge that his administration has relegated to the policy backburner as it focuses on the bloody war in Ukraine: nuclear-armed North Korea.
Biden begins a five-day trip to Asia — his first to the region since taking office in January 2021 — with a three-day visit to South Korea for talks with new President Yoon Suk-yeol before heading to Tokyo for a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida followed by a summit with “Quad” leaders there.
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KEYWORDS
China,
U.S.,
North Korea,
Fumio Kishida,
Nuclear weapons,
South Korea,
North Korean nuclear crisis,
Joe Biden,
South Korea-Japan relations,
Quad,
Yoon Suk-yeol
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