South Korea’s Leader Will Be Odd Man Out in Meeting With Trump and Shinzo Abe
20, 2017
SEOUL, South Korea — When President Moon Jae-in of South Korea sits down with President Trump
and the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, in New York on Thursday, he will be meeting two of his strongest allies in pressuring North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs.
that This regime is so close now to threatening the United States and others with a nuclear weapon
that we really have to move with a great sense of urgency on sanctions, on diplomacy and preparing, if necessary, a military option,
Alexis Dudden said that For Prime Minister Abe and his administration, the deeper issue is the way in which he and his supporters can use the North Korean missile tests to generate increasing apprehension throughout Japan
that Japan cannot rely on the United States alone, that Japan needs to have a much more proactive military,
Yun said that Although there is not much common ground between Moon
and Abe, the gravity of the North Korean nuclear crisis has brought them together in an uncomfortable partnership,
On Wednesday, Mr. Abe defended the Trump administration’s approach, telling the General Assembly
that for North Korea, "dialogue was the best means of deceiving us and buying time." Like Mr. Trump and Mr. Abe, Mr.
Japan said that I firmly support the United States position that all options are on the table.