the leaders of south korea the u.s and japan shared their thoughts after meeting
for the first time in the nato event in madrid let's have a quick lesson
it's great to be here again with president following our
detail and productive conversations in seoul last month and also to be joined by prime minister
kashida by visiting tokyo last month and spent the last few days in germany with the d7 and
this an opportunity to further coordinate our trial and election specifically with regard to
the democratic people's republic of korea our trinidadian cooperation in my view is essential
to achieving our shared objective including a complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula
and a free and open indo-pacific i look forward to additional dialogues in this format as we
continue to strengthen our trilateral our trilateral engagement and we remain deeply
concerned the dpr case continued escalatory ballistic missiles and tests and potential for
uh to conduct a nuclear test i'm particularly pleased that this speed is taking place on the
margin of this historic native summit and then for the first time it includes indo-pacific
partners of australia japan new zealand and the korean republic and uh uh the resuming
republic of korea and attendance of uh all four of these leaders highlights the global resolve
the whole russia accountable for supreme momentum both war and ukraine and our shared determination
to defend the rules based internationally and with that i'd like to turn the president
on
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so these are some of the remarks made by the leaders of washington and tokyo we will have
more on what was produced during the session in our later newscast