President Trump will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe later this month to talk about North Korea and trade policy, according to the White House.
“The two leaders will discuss the international campaign to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea in advance of President Trump’s planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,” the White House said in a statement. “President Trump and Prime Minister Abe will explore ways to expand fair and reciprocal trade and investment ties between the United States and Japan, two of the world’s wealthiest and most innovative economies.”
The two leaders will meet at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on April 17-18.
Trump and Kim Jong Un have agreed to a meeting by the end of May to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Abe told the Nikkei Asian Review that he would talk about North Korea’s abduction of Japanese nationals during the talk.
Also during the meeting, Abe is expected to bring up the Trump administration’s imposition of new tariffs on steel and aluminum exports. According to a Japanese government source, Abe will urge U.S. leaders to exempt Tokyo from those tariffs.
Last month the U.S. imposed 10 percent tariffs on aluminum imports and a 25 percent tariff on steel imports.
