South Korea-Japan Summit, U.S. Border Policy Changes, U.S. Annual Threat Assessment, and More

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

4.6 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio meets with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul, South Korea; major pandemic-related U.S. immigration policies such as Title 42 end, straining an already overwhelmed southern border; the director of national intelligence and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency brief a Senate panel on the top international threats to U.S. national security; and the U.S. Congress debates a plan to prevent default. Mentioned on the Podcast Paul B. Stares, “Conflicts to Watch in 2023,” CFR.org For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/south-korea-japan-summit-us-border-policy-changes-us-annual-threat-assessment-and-more

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0:00.0	In the coming week, Japan and South Korea hold a summit amid warming ties.
0:06.0	U.S. border areas prepare for an influx of migrants as COVID-19 policies expire,
0:10.0	and top U.S. intelligence officials brief Congress on threats facing the country.
0:14.0	It's May 4, 2023 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.
0:26.2	And I'm Carla Ann Robbins.
0:28.2	Carla, let's kick things off in Northeast Asia.
0:31.4	On Sunday, Prime Minister Kishita Fumio is due to land in South Korea to meet with President
0:36.4	Yun Sukul, and this is a meeting
0:38.6	that has been anticipated for quite a bit. It's hopefully carrying further momentum into a warming
0:44.1	of ties between Japan and South Korea, which have had very strained relations, continuing from
0:49.7	the legacy of Japan's colonial era abuses in South Korea. Now, in recent months, these two staunch
0:55.6	U.S. allies have taken some big strides to thaw tensions. So what do we owe this to?
1:00.3	What do you see as the triggers for the rapprochement? So, Bob, we can thank Kim Jong-un,
1:04.4	more than anybody else in the relentless barrage of North Korean missiles flying over South
1:08.9	Korea and Japan, as well as an increasingly assertive
1:12.1	China for this reconciliation. It's nothing like having common enemies to make friends.
1:17.8	And this weekend's visit follows Yun's visit, as you noted, to Japan and March, which I believe
1:22.3	was the first formal Japanese South Korean summit since 2011. So my favorite part of their March visit was this image.
1:29.6	I don't know if you saw it, of Kashita and Yun trying to look relaxed in a Ginza restaurant
1:34.3	as they toasted each other with these enormous glasses of Japanese beer mixed with Korean
1:39.6	soju, which is a distilled rice spirit.
1:42.1	It's sort of a Japanese- Korean boiler maker. And for guys who
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