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JAPAN-ROK: Blinken Meets Virtually With Counterparts Ahead Of Leaders Summit

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is currently meeting virtually with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin ahead of a key trilateral summit between President Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at Camp David, Maryland, on Friday.

  • Blinken will deliver remarks to the press at 11:30 ET 16:30 BST.
  • The three leaders are expected to make the leaders summit a yearly event and outline plans for expanded military and economic cooperation.
  • The Wall Street Journal reports: "National-security advisers from the three nations are set to meet twice a year, and a hotline for the three leaders is in the works."
  • President Yoon said in a televised address today: “The ROK-U.S.-Japan summit to be held at Camp David in three days will set a new milestone in trilateral cooperation..."
  • An institutionalisation of bilateral ties between Japan and South Korea that can outlive the terms of the current three leaders would be a major foreign policy win for President Biden and secure a key plank of the Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy.

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