Trump will travel to five Asian nations from Nov. 3-14, the longest overseas trip of his presidency so far.
WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to travel to Asia in November for the longest overseas journey of his presidency so far as he seeks to build a common front against North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, the White House announced Friday.
Trump will travel to five Asian nations from Nov. 3-14, including three critical to the crisis over North Korea: Japan, South Korea, and China.
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The president will also stop in the Philippines, whose authoritarian leader Trump has embraced for his antidrug campaign despite extrajudicial killings, and in Vietnam, which is still smarting over his decision to abandon a free-trade pact.
“President Trump will discuss the importance of a free and open Indo-Pacific region to America’s prosperity and security,” the administration said in a statement. “He will also emphasize the importance of fair and reciprocal economic ties with America’s trade partners.’’
“The president’s engagements will strengthen the international resolve to confront the North Korean threat and ensure the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” the statement said.
