Monitoring Desk
WASHINGTON: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday that he apprised Western powers that East Asia could be the next Ukraine, as he (Kishida) urged a united front on aggressive North Korea.
Japanese Prime Minister visited all members of the elite club except Germany, which he plans to visit soon.
Concluding his visit in Washington, Prime Minister Kishida said he has shared with G7 leaders his strong sense of crisis about the security situation in East Asia.
Japan’s Prime Minister and East Asia
Japan’s Prime Minister told a press conference after holding a meeting with US President Joe Biden that the environment around Japan is becoming severe with attempt to unilaterally change the status quo by force in the South China Sea and the East China Sea and the activation of North Korea’s missile and nuclear activities.
Kishida arrived in Washington after his government announced that Tokyo would double defense expenditure over the next five years, a major change for a country that has been officially pacifist since World War II.
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Japanese Prime Minister said he would work to explain to the people the need to spend tax money to upgrade defense expenditure to 2 % of GDP — a target separately set by Nato that more countries are accepting since Moscow’s invasion of Kyiv.
