![]() ![]() In the wake of World War II, Japan embraced pacifism. But Kishida is in a complicated position by discussing efforts to respond to nuclear threats by North Korea with Japan’s history of also calling for a world free from nuclear arms, said Kan Kimura, a Kobe University professor and an expert on South Korea. Kishida and Biden will hold a trilateral summit with South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol on the sidelines of the G-7 summit. to strengthen their tools for deterring a nuclear attack by North Korea. ![]() and Japanese leaders also talked about ways to reinforce their three-way partnership with South Korea, which signed an agreement in April with the U.S. China has said that self-governing Taiwan should come under its rule. Kishida had planned to discuss further strengthening of deterrence and response capability with Biden in the face of China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region, as well as confirming the importance of the Taiwan Strait for global peace and stability. Members of the G-7, which also includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the European Union, are grappling with the territorial ambitions of Russia and China, two nuclear powers. dropped the first nuclear bomb in 1945 during World War II, carries newfound resonance. ![]() The Kishida family’s home city of Hiroshima will host the gathering of major industrialized nations known at the G-7. and Japan closer together, that “the cooperation has evolved in leaps and bounds.” Kishida noted that the global tensions had brought the U.S. “When our countries stand together, we stand stronger and I believe the whole world is safer when we do.” “I couldn’t agree with you more,” Biden told the Japanese prime minister as they sat with their aides at a conference table. Kishida and Yoon will pay their respects together at a Hiroshima memorial for Korean atomic bomb victims in a trust-building gesture as the two countries repair ties strained by disputes stemming from Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Thursday aiming to showcase the strength of their alliance ahead of a Group of Seven summit where leading democracies will tackle the challenges of Russia’s war in Ukraine, North Korea’s ballistic nuclear threats and an increasingly forceful China.īiden recalled that Kishida said during a January Washington visit that the world faced one of the “most complex” security environments in recent history. In a closely watched event on the sidelines of the summit, Kishida will meet together with President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to discuss closer security cooperation, possibly including stronger nuclear deterrence. To address the rise of Global South nations, including many former colonies of Western powers with varied views on and ties to Russia and China, the G7 will offer these countries more support in health, food security and infrastructure to develop closer ties. There will also be a focus on Beijing’s escalating threats against Taiwan, the self-governing democratic island Beijing claims as its own, and ways to reduce Western democracies’ economic and supply chain dependency on China. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will join the session via the internet. G7 leaders are expected to strongly condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine while pledging their continuing support for Ukraine. ![]()
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