{"id":33002,"date":"2021-03-18T18:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T01:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33002"},"modified":"2021-03-18T18:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T01:24:19","slug":"secretary-blinken-and-secretary-austins-meeting-with-republic-of-korea-president-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33002","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken and Secretary Austin\u2019s Meeting with Republic of Korea President Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>3\/18\/2021 07:36 AM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd\u00a0J.\u00a0Austin\u00a0III\u00a0met with Republic of Korea\u00a0(ROK)\u00a0President Moon Jae-in today in Seoul. During the meeting, they reaffirmed that the strong U.S.-ROK\u00a0Alliance is the linchpin of peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and across the world. President Moon, Secretary Blinken, and Secretary Austin also discussed the importance of\u00a0expanding cooperation to combat COVID-19 and\u00a0the\u00a0climate\u00a0crisis. Secretary Blinken highlighted the importance of reinvigorating\u00a0trilateral cooperation among the United States, Japan, and the\u00a0ROK\u00a0to\u00a0promote\u00a0a free and open Indo-Pacific region and\u00a0to address the global challenges of today and the future, including\u00a0North Korea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3\/18\/2021 07:36 AM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33003,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33002\/revisions\/33003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}