President Of South Korea, US And Japanese PM To Hold Summit At Camp David, Discuss North Korea's Nuclear Program

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. (Wikimedia Commons/KOCIS/Jeon Han)

JAKARTA - South Korean President (South Korea) Yoom Suk Yeol will hold a trilateral summit (KTT) with US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Camp David, near Washington, on August 18.

As reported by ANTARA from Yonhap-OANA, Thursday, July 20, the three leaders are expected to discuss ways to strengthen prevention efforts against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats (North Korea) during the summit at the US presidential retreat in Maryland.

The South Korean presidential office acknowledged in a notification to journalists the summit would take place in the US "in August," but added a date and place would certainly be announced as soon as coordination between the three parties.

North Korea's nuclear program became an urgent issue to resolve immediately after the regime stepped up their weapons tests, including the launch of solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles last week.

Biden proposed the trilateral summit when the three leaders met on the sidelines of the Group of the Seven Developed Countries (G7) Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, in May.

The South Korean presidential office said at the time that the leaders agreed to develop three-way cooperation to a "new level," to further strengthen strategic cooperation against North Korea's nuclear threat, and strengthen a free and open international order under legal rules.

At Camp David, the three leaders are expected to evaluate the progress of their deal during Cambodia's trilateral summit in November to share North Korean missile warning data in full.

Another topic they will most likely discuss is the issue of troop chains and their response to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The meeting will be the first meeting for the three leaders to take place solely for the purpose of a trilateral summit, not to be held on the sidelines of multilateral meetings.

The meeting will also take place four months after Yoon visited Washington on a state visit to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the South Korean-US alliance.