The president of the United States, Joe Biden, in a press conference with his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol, said he was ready to meet the leader of Pyongyang, Kim jong-un, if on his part there will be “sincerity and seriousness” . To a reporter who asked him if Washington had offered vaccines against Covid-19 in Pyongyang, Biden replied in the affirmative, explaining however that he had not received an answer.
Biden then said, in a joint press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, that “we have agreed to start discussions on expanding the scope of combined military exercises and training across the Korean peninsula.” The move aims to discourage Pyongyang’s nuclear threat at a time when there is little hope of engaging in true diplomacy. “We need to extend cooperation to the entire Indo-Pacific,” Biden concluded.