Obama’s day: A caller from South Korea

Trade, a arise of China, and threats from North Korea are among a topics as President Obama welcomes South Korea President Park Geun-hye to a White House on Friday.

Obama and Park “will sell views on a extended operation of security, economic, and tellurian issues, including a U.S.-ROK fondness and a vicious purpose it plays in assuring informal fortitude and security,” says a White House schedule.

The bulletin includes a impact of a due Trans-Pacific Partnership, a large trade understanding that includes a United States and other Pacific Rim nations. The U.S. already has a apart giveaway trade agreement with South Korea, though Park has hinted that her nation might be peaceful to join a TPP.

The United States sees allies like South Korea as Asian counterweights to a mercantile and troops arise of China.

South Korea, meanwhile, relies on a United States to opposite intensity threats from nuclear-armed North Korea.

In further to a late morning bi-lateral assembly in a Oval Office, Obama and Vice President Biden will horde a operative lunch for Park.

In a early afternoon, Obama and Park reason a corner news discussion in a East Room during a White House.

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