U.S. President Joe Biden has left the United States for a six-day trip to South Korea and Japan, his first visit to the Indo-Pacific region as president.
He is expected to arrive in South Korea on Friday evening.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told a press briefing on Wednesday that Biden intends to seize “this pivotal moment” to assert “American leadership in the vital region.”
“The message we’re trying to send on this trip is a message of an affirmative vision of what the world can look like if the democracies and open societies of the world stand together to shape the rules of the road, to define the security architecture of the region, to reinforce strong, powerful, historic alliances,” Sullivan said….
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