President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at Camp David next month . The three leaders will discuss expanding trilateral cooperation across the IndoPacific and beyond including to address the continued threat posed by the DPRK and to strengthen ties with ASEAN and the Pacific Islands . The two East Asian neighbors have a long history of acrimony dating back to Japans colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula a century ago . In March the leaders of South Korea and Japan promised to resume ties in a fencemending summit in March the first such meeting in years as the two neighbors sought to confront threats from North Korea and rising concerns about China . In recent years the often fraught relations have undermined efforts by the U.S. to present a united front against North Korea . The leaders have undermined the United States and the growing assertiveness of Beijing and the rising concerns of Beijing . The U.N. National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said the summit would reaffirm the ironclad alliances between the two countries . He also visited both countries for a trilateral meeting in May and in June at the NATO summit in Madrid and in Madrid. The two countries have a relationship has been described as ‘extraordinary in the way theyve tried to improve their bilateral relations’. In May and July. They really have been extraordinary in the … relationship’ve been extraordinary’s ‘exceptional in the…relationship” to improve the relationship“to improve their relationship” – Kirby said. The meeting’S. and the “extraordinary. They’re very close to improve. Theyreally have been exceptional in the . relationship
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