U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Saturday morning local time for a series of summits and meetings between the US president and leaders of Southeast Asian nations.
Both the Japanese and the South Koreans find themselves united in concern about Kim Jong Un's missile tests, as well as the prospect of a seventh nuclear weapons test. North Korea has ramped up its tests this year, having carried out missile tests on 32 days in 2022, according to a CNN count. That's compared to just eight in 2021 and four in 2020, with the latest launch coming on Wednesday.
Sullivan said Thursday that the administration is concerned about the North Koreans conducting a seventh nuclear test but can't say if it will come during the weekend of meetings. "One thing that President Biden certainly wants to do with our closest allies is preview what he intends to do, and also ask the leaders of and Japan, 'what would you like me to raise? What do you want me to go in with?'" Sullivan said, adding that it "will be a topic but it will not be the main event of the trilateral."
U.S. officials declined to speculate on how the two leaders' political situations might affect the dynamic of their meeting.
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