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HONOLULU
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump headed to Japan on the first
stop of his five-nation tour of Asia on Saturday, looking to present a
united front with the Japanese against North Korea as tensions run high
over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests.
Trump,
who is on a 12-day trip, is to speak to U.S. and Japanese forces at
Yokota air base shortly after arriving in Japan on Sunday and looked to
stress the importance of the alliance to regional security.
Ballistic
missile tests by North Korea and its sixth and largest nuclear test, in
defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, have exacerbated the
most critical international challenge of Trump’s presidency.
Aerial drills conducted over South Korea by two U.S. strategic bombers have raised tensions in recent days.
In
a display of golf diplomacy, Trump is to play a round of golf with
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The two leaders also played together
in Florida earlier this year.
Trump will also
have a state call with the Imperial Family at Akasaka Palace during his
visit. Abe and Trump will meet families of Japanese citizens abducted by
North Korea.
Joined by his wife Melania on part of the trip,
Trump’s tour of Asia is the longest by an American president since
George H.W. Bush in 1992. Besides Japan, he will visit South Korea,
China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Trump departed Hawaii for Japan aboard Air Force One shortly before 7:27 a.m. Hawaii time (1727 GMT).
En route to Hawaii’s Hickham Air Force Base, Trump’s motorcade stopped briefly at the Trump International Hotel Waikiki.
”It
has been a tremendously successful project and he wanted to say hello
and thank you to the employees for all their hard work,” White House
spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.
Trump extended the trip by a day on Friday when he agreed to participate in a summit of East Asian nations in Manila.
Members
of U.S. military services and Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) wait for
the arrival of U.S. President Donald Trump at U.S. Air Force Yokota Air
Base in Fussa, on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, November 5, 2017.
REUTERS/Toru Hanai
His
trip got off to a colorful start in Hawaii. He was taken by boat out to
the USS Arizona Memorial, where lies the World War Two ship that was
sunk by the Japanese during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
The Trumps tossed white flower petals into the waters at the memorial in honor of those who died at Pearl Harbor.
TRADE, NORTH KOREA
U.S.
President Donald Trump shouts to reporters as he and and first lady
Melania Trump board Air Force One for travel to Hawaii, on his way to an
extended trip to five countries in Asia, from Joint Base Andrews,
Maryland, U.S. November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Trump’s
trip is to be dominated by trade and how to muster more international
pressure on North Korea to give up nuclear weapons.
“We’ll
be talking about trade,” Trump told reporters at the White House on
Friday. “We’ll be talking about obviously North Korea. We’ll be
enlisting the help of a lot of people and countries and we’ll see what
happens. But I think we’re going to have a very successful trip. There
is a lot of good will.”
Trump has rattled some
allies with his vow to “totally destroy” North Korea if it threatens the
United States and his dismissal of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a
“rocket man” on a suicide mission.
White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster, briefing reporters on Friday, defended Trump’s colorful language.
“What’s inflammatory is the North Korean regime and what they’re doing to threaten the world,” McMaster said.
Trump
will seek a united front with the leaders of Japan and South Korea
against North Korea before visiting Beijing to make the case to Chinese
President Xi Jinping that he should do more to rein in Pyongyang.
Trade
will factor heavily during Trump’s trip as he tries to persuade Asian
allies to agree to trade policies more favorable to the United States. A
centerpiece of the trip will be a visit to the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation summit in Danang, Vietnam, where he will deliver a speech in
support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region, which is seen as
offering a bulwark in response to expansionist Chinese policies.
Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Paul Tait and Mary Milliken
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