Biden, Yoon, Kishida meet on sidelines of ASEAN summit

The U.S. President, Joe Biden to meet with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Cambodia at the weekend.

South Korean president, Yoon confirmed to reporters in Seoul on Thursday, he said that the talks will take place on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia.

Yoon’s office named Sunday as the date for the meeting.

The meeting is expected to focus on rising tensions in East Asia and North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme.

Also, Kishida will meet Yoon separately in Cambodia.

The U.S. and its Asian allies fear North Korea’s first nuclear test in years could be imminent.

According to the South Korean military, North Korea has been testing missiles at an unusually high frequency, including an Inter Continental Ballistic Missile, since the end of September.

The UN resolutions ban the largely isolated state from both nuclear testing and testing of ballistic missiles capable of being armed with a nuclear warhead.

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