U.S. President Joe Biden has invited Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean leader Yoon Suk-yeol to Washington for a summit this summer to discuss locking in progress made in improving trilateral ties, the White House¡¯s top Asia official said Thursday.
¡°President Biden extended an invitation to both Prime Minister Kishida and President Yoon to come to Washington later this summer for a three-way summit between the leaders,¡± White House Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell said in a pre-recorded video speech to a forum in Seoul.
The envisioned trilateral summit would be their first not to be held on the sidelines of a multilateral forum ¡ª giving the three leaders a chance to focus more intently on their shared goals. The summit could happen around the end of August, , citing multiple unidentified Japanese and South Korean officials.
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