Washington: Agencies

A White House official confirmed that the summit, which the United States will host this week with Japan and South Korea, is expected to result in an agreement on the launch of a hotline for urgent communications between the leaders of the three countries. According to what was reported by the Middle East News Agency on Thursday
The plan will be announced on Friday, as part of a "very ambitious set of initiatives that seek to secure tripartite participation," said Kurt Campbell, coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs at the US National Security Council. both now and in the future" between the parties concerned.
Campbell added - in an interview with the American Brookings Institution -: "We will invest in technology to have a three-way hotline for leaders and others within their governments to communicate in critical circumstances," noting that the situation in Ukraine and the need to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait are expected to be discussed.
He explained that the main goal of the first independent summit between the three countries - which will be hosted by US President Joe Biden at the Camp David resort near Washington - will be to make the tripartite cooperation "broader, deeper (and) more extensive" by taking steps that will prevent the current progress from regressing in the future. .

For their part, senior US officials said that Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yun Sok Yul will agree to expand their cooperation to a wide range of areas, including semiconductors, artificial intelligence and education, as well as development assistance in other parts of the region. Indian and Pacific Oceans.

The three leaders are expected to agree to frequently hold joint exercises for the armed forces of the three countries and exchange real-time information on North Korea's missile launches.