U.S. President Joe Biden met with Japanese and South Korean leaders on Friday as they sought to cement their diplomatic progress ahead of a new Trump administration that many fear could upend alliances worldwide.

North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, as well as North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and dimming prospects for a peaceful resolution to a decades-long conflict with South Korea are also raising tensions in Asia.

Japan, South Korea and the U.S. hold a military exercise in a message to China and North Korea:::: Rahn Emanuel, U.S. Embassador to Japan"If you look at the region and you want to project deterrence,