Biden assures that the US is prepared "for anything North Korea does"

MADRID, 22 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, assured this Saturday in a meeting in Seoul with his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk-Yeol, that the United States is prepared “for anything North Korea does” and no surprise is going to catch him unsuspecting, as part of his tour of East Asia.

“We’re prepared for anything North Korea does. We’ve thought about how we’re going to respond to anything they do. So I’m not worried,” the White House tenant said in a statement.

In this context, Biden has sent a message to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, and said: “Hello”, reflecting the attempts, so far unsuccessful, of the Biden Administration to restart diplomacy with Pyongyang, as he has collected the American chain CNN.

During the meeting with the South Korean president, Biden stressed that the Armed Forces of both countries “are side by side, standing on a peninsula for seven decades to preserve peace and make shared prosperity possible.”

In this sense, he stressed that “it is critically important” that the United States, South Korea and Japan have a “very close trilateral relationship.”

The United States maintains about 28,500 troops in South Korea to deter North Korean aggression, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.

The US president has also met in Seoul with the president of the Hyundai Motor group, Chung Euisun, and has highlighted the new investments of 11,000 million dollars by the Korean automaker, including 5,500 million dollars to open a new electric vehicle factory. in Georgia.

Likewise, he has made a visit to the Samsung plant, where they have shown him their next generation technology.

Biden is scheduled to visit an airspace control center where members of the US and South Korean militaries work together to police airspace.

His next stop will be Japan, where he will discuss with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida the threat from North Korea and China’s growing influence in the strategic landscape of the Pacific region.

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