The visit of the American president to South Korea and Japan ended Tuesday May 24. Washington notably announced the creation of a new commercial partnership with thirteen countries.
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South Korea and Japan, an anchoring of the American strategy in Northeast Asia, are also engaged in politics aimed at sanctioning and isolating Russia following the invasion of the Ukraine. But the political and military support provided by Washington to kyiv had feared in Seoul and Tokyo a refocusing of the American strategy on Europe, to the detriment of Indo-Pacific.
Visit South Korea and Japan, President Joe Biden has just endured to reassure his allies, faced with a China perceived in Tokyo as a threat and a North Korea returned to a strategy of tension . “For decades, our alliance has been a pillar of peace, growth and regional prosperity. Today, our cooperation is essential to also preserve the stability of the world scene,” told Seoul on Saturday, May 21, in Seoul on Saturday, May 21, in Seoul, in Seoul, in Seoul on Saturday 21 Mr. Biden, who had started his tour by the South Korean capital at the end of the week.
Alignment with the United States was expected from South Korea, where the new president, Yoon Seok-Youl, intends to give a “new start” to his country by grasping it more strongly at the New economic and security architecture of Indo-Pacific and by playing an increased role worldwide.
m. Yoon announced that he intended to depart from the conciliatory policy vis-à-vis the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of his predecessor, Moon Jae-in, who bet on moderation to convince Pyongyang to initiate negotiations. The South Korean president has thus announced that the joint American-south-Korean military maneuvers would be intensified and that the strategy and deterrence council, a high-level mechanism intended to expand the framework of deterrent actions, put in sleep since January 2018 , would be reactivated.
increase in the Japanese defense budget
The American president said he was open to dialogue with Pyongyang, who has repeatedly known that the talks were in vain until the United States would maintain its “hostile politics” (that is to say say sanctions). A seventh North Korean nuclear test, announced as imminent by Washington, did not take place during the visit of Joe Biden in Seoul. It could only be awarded.
Failed alignment with the United States has been more unexpected in the case of Japan, which generally plays the weight of international relations. Expressing the fear that “what is happening in Ukraine can happen tomorrow in East Asia”, Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, with 61.5 % support for their firmness on the war in Ukraine, called, after his interviews with the American president, the Allies of Japan “and the countries which share the same values to cooperate to never tolerate the use of force in the Indo-Pacific region”. “We firmly oppose any attempt to change the status quo by force in the sea of eastern and southern China,” he added
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