Before President Joe Biden left South Korea for Japan, he offered a brief message to Kim Jong Un, whose nuclear saber-rattling has risked overshadowing the US leader’s first Asia trip: “Hello. Period.” | AFP
He has spent two days with South Korea’s newly elected President Yoon Suk-yeol, with the pair saying Saturday that “considering the evolving threat” from Pyongyang, they were looking at expanding the “scope and scale” of joint military exercises.
Any build-up of forces or expansion of joint military exercises would likely enrage Pyongyang, which views the drills as rehearsals for invasion.North Korea’s weapons testing schedule may also be affected by a raging Covid-19 outbreak. Biden, while adding that he would not exclude a meeting with Kim if the North Korean leader were “sincere”.
Biden has used his visit to call for the allies to deepen ties, saying at a press conference with Yoon that Asia was a key battleground in the global “competition between democracies and autocracies”.
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