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Opinion A major Biden achievement is coming to fruition this week

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August 17, 2023 at 1:48 p.m. EDT
President Biden meets with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during the NATO summit in Madrid on June 29, 2022. (Susan Walsh/AP)
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Sue Mi Terry is a former senior CIA analyst and director for Japan and Korea affairs at the National Security Council. Max Boot is a Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

It is hard to exaggerate the significance of Friday’s summit at Camp David among President Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. This represents another major step toward the establishment of a new trilateral alliance that could help all three nations cope with the growing threats from North Korea and China in a world destabilized by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.