US-Japan alliance is the cornerstone on Indo-Pacific stability

  • Diplomats firmly in lead on Korean peninsula talks
  • Recognise importance of Japanese abductee issue
  • Pause in US-South Korea military exercises to make diplomatic space
  • Still retains strong collaborative defensive stance
  • US objective remains CVID for North Korea
  • US will cooperate with China where possible, will compete with China where necessary

Yen not doing too much.

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And, yeah, that's not how to spell defence, but imagonna let that slide this once

And CVID = Complete, Verifiable and Irreversible Dismantlement/Disarmament (re nukes)