Camp David Summit, Yellowknife Evacuation, Ecuador Election
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. wants to shore up relations in East Asia to counter China. |
| 0:07.0 | South Korea and Japan are key partners in that effort, but they have a history of mistrust |
| 0:12.0 | could meeting with President Biden at Camp David help change that. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Michelle Martin with Laila Fado, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:21.4 | All 20,000 residents of Yellowknife Canada are being told to leave their homes, |
| 0:26.2 | the capital of the Northwest Territories is under evacuation orders as wildfires edge closer to town. |
| 0:31.6 | This year has been Canada's worst fire season on record, is this the new normal? |
| 0:36.2 | And Ecuador is gearing up for presidential elections this weekend. |
| 0:40.0 | Voters make their decision less than two weeks after a candidate was assassinated outside |
| 0:45.1 | a rally in Keto. What's at stake is people head to the polls. |
| 0:48.8 | Stay with us, we have the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:00.6 | President Biden is meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea later today at Camp David. |
| 1:06.1 | That's the presidential retreat in the mountains of Northwest Maryland. |
| 1:09.3 | It's been the scene of a number of diplomatic breakthroughs. |
| 1:12.0 | And this is the first time since 2015 that any foreign leader is being hosted there. |
| 1:16.7 | NPR White House correspondent Asma Khadas will be at Camp David and she joins us now. |
| 1:21.5 | Hi Asma. |
| 1:22.4 | Good morning. |
| 1:23.2 | Good morning. So what's the dynamic like between these three leaders? |
| 1:27.2 | Well, they get along, but historically South Korea and Japan have had a rather strained |
| 1:32.9 | relationship. Laila that dates back to the early 20th century when Japan colonized the Korean |
| 1:38.5 | peninsula. In recent years, I will say that the relationships, the bilateral relationship between |
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