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Joe Biden and South Korea’s Moon Jae-in to meet at White House in May
- The US president is seeking trilateral cooperation with Seoul and Tokyo on regional security concerns like China and North Korea
- The two leaders will discuss how to push forward efforts to stem Pyongyang’s nuclear programme
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US President Joe Biden will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Washington next month, Moon’s office and the White House said, in talks that will include how to push forward efforts to stem North Korea’s nuclear programme.
The Biden administration says it is in the final stages of a review of its policy towards North Korea and is keen to encourage trilateral cooperation with Seoul and Tokyo on that issue and other regional security concerns, including China.
Biden is expected to meet Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in Washington on Friday. Suga will be the first foreign leader to meet Biden in person since the president took office in January.
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Moon’s spokesman Kang Min-seok said in a statement issued early on Friday, Seoul time, that Moon and Biden will discuss ways to develop strong ties between their countries and close cooperation to “achieve complete denuclearisation and lasting peace” on the Korean peninsula.
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Kang said the visit would take place in late May.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the summit would take place in the second half of May and the exact date was still being finalised.
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Speaking at a regular news briefing on Thursday, she said the meeting would “highlight the ironclad US-South Korea alliance”.
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