Paris, May 22 (Cinktank.com) –
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, assured this Saturday during a meeting in Seoul with his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk-Yeol, that the United States is prepared “for whatever North Korea will do. » and that no surprise will take her by surprise, as part of her East Asia tour.
“We are prepared for anything North Korea can do. We thought about how we’re going to respond to what they do. So I’m not worried,” the occupant of the White House said in a statement.
In this context, Mr. Biden sent a message to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, and said to him: “Hello”, reflecting the so far unsuccessful attempts of the Biden administration to restart diplomacy with Pyongyang, as reports the American channel CNN.
During his meeting with the South Korean leader, Mr. Biden stressed that the armed forces of the two countries “have stood side by side on a peninsula for seven decades to preserve peace and make possible shared prosperity”.
In this sense, he stressed that “it is of paramount importance” that the United States, South Korea and Japan have a “very close trilateral relationship”.
The United States maintains about 28,500 troops in South Korea to deter any North Korean aggression, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
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The US leader also met with Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun in Seoul and highlighted the Korean automaker’s new $11 billion investment, including $5.5 billion for the opening of a new plant. of electric vehicles in Georgia.
He also visited the Samsung factory, where he was shown its next-generation technology.
Mr Biden is due to visit an airspace control center where members of the US and South Korean armies work together to monitor airspace.
His next stop will be Japan, where he will discuss with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida the threat posed by North Korea and China’s growing influence on the strategic landscape of the Pacific region.
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