SEOUL – To see the balance between the government and the Biden government with the US’s most important Asian allies, just look at the cloth cover.
During the first stages of a trip with multiple people, Foreign Minister Antony Blinken and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin wore blue pens while in Tokyo – a testament to solidarity with the Japanese expressed by North Korea has been abducted.
But on Wednesday, when the two officials arrived in Seoul, the pens were gone, acknowledging that the matter carries less weight in a South Korea that is currently giving priority to involvement in the Kim Jong Un regime.
After four years of relative inattention toward U.S. allies, President Biden has vowed to rebuild ties with foreign friends and select two partners who are central to Washington’s challenges with a growing China and a growing nuclear core. North Korea.
‘This is not an accident we chose [South Korea] for the first overseas trip of the cabinet level of the Biden-Harris government with Japan, “said Mr. Blinken said in Seoul on Wednesday.