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President Joe Biden is set to mark a “new era” with United States’ one of the most high-profile trilateral partnerships on Friday, using a first-of-its-kind summit with counterparts of South Korea and Japan at Camp David to announce new measures on defense, education, technology and other key areas of cooperation.
At the joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Biden stated, “This is the first summit I’ve hosted at Camp David, and I can think of no more fitting location to begin the next era of cooperation.” Further adding that the commitments the leaders have made will stand the test of time, US President stated, “This is about decades and decades.”
The White House aides have described the summit as the two-year effort to assist in a rapprochement between South Korea and Japan, which were sharing frosty relationship for years. It also gives birth to White House’s hopes of extended stretch of three-way engagement, designed to counter China’s military activities in the region and also North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.