Tag: Trump trip to Japan

Five takeaways on Trump’s Japan trip

President Trump spent Memorial Day weekend in Tokyo, where he was Japan’s first state guest since the enthronement of the new emperor.

Trump received the red-carpet treatment from the imperial family, took in a sumo tournament and golfed with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

But the president was often fixated on the same topics that have consumed him recently in Washington, D.C., launching attacks on former Vice President Joe Biden and weighing in on nuclear tensions with North Korea and Iran.

View the complete May 28 article by Brett Samuels and Jordan Fabian on The Hill website here.

Trump Opens Tokyo Visit With a Tweet Sure to Unnerve the Japanese

TOKYO — President Trump kicked off the first full day of a state visit to Japan on Sunday by playing down North Korea’s recent tests of short-range ballistic missiles, undercutting declarations by both Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the president’s own national security adviser that the launches violated United Nations resolutions.

“North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter from his hotel in Tokyo before a round of golf with Mr. Abe in nearby Chiba. “I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me.”

As it has pursued on-again, off-again denuclearization talks with North Korea, the United States has been focused on the North’s attempt to build nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the United States mainland.

View the complete May 25 article by Annie Karni and Katie Rogers on The New York Times website here.