U.S. president’s first official trip to Asia to begin with meetings in Japan with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
“It’s expected we’ll meet with Putin, yeah,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One before landing in the Japanese capital. “We want Putin’s help on North Korea, and we’ll be meeting with a lot of different leaders.”
The U.S. president is embarking on his first official trip to Asia, which begins Sunday with meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The trip ends with multinational conferences in Vietnam and the Philippines that Mr. Putin is also expected to attend.
During the flight to Tokyo from Honolulu, Mr. Trump said pressure on North Korea was his priority, and he also wanted to take steps to narrow U.S. trade deficits in Asia.
On Friday, Mr. Trump flew to Hawaii from Washington and, despite a 19-hour day of several military briefings and a reception, Mr. Trump spoke enthusiastically about a visit to the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial, a shrine to the 1,177 crewmen who died during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.
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