US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan highlighted “synergies” in trilateral cooperation between South Korea, the United States and Japan in security, technology and other fields on Tuesday, the eve of a summit between President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Sullivan made the remarks as he previewed the White House summit on what he called issues “across the board,” including defense, space cooperation and research partnerships on critical technologies, including artificial intelligence and semiconductors.
“I believe I don’t necessarily like to use the word synergies very often, but I do believe that there are synergies on a trilateral basis in terms of our technological, industrial, economic capacity, as well as our security and military cooperation,” Sullivan told a press briefing.
“We want to build on that. For tomorrow, what we are announcing will be bilateral measures in this space. And then of course, we will be open in the future to discussing things more (on trilateral cooperation),” he added.
