National security advisor Jake Sullivan reefed reporters at camp david where President Biden was meeting with the leaders of japan and south korea. He emphasized the unique nature of the summit but cautioned it was the beginning of a former secure formal Security Dialogue and not intended to be seen as a military alliance. He also addressed u. S. Policy toward north korea and the ukrainerussia war. This is just under 20 minutes. Secretary solomon this is the first by a foreign leader and this will be to foreign leaders. It is the first since 2015 and in keeping with the time honored tradition of posting significant consequential diplomatic means at camp david, this signifies a new era of cooperation. In many ways, the summit has been in the making since the day President Biden took office. He has really focused on each of these relationships and alliances, the bilateral relationship we have with japan and korea and the trilateral cooperation between the three of us. His first two foreign leader visits were japan and the r. O. K. Peered his first two stops on his first r. O. K. His first two stops. He is working on the Trilateral Alliances and they are stronger than they have been at any point in modern memory. A lot of that is due to the president s focus and investment in the personal aspect of diplomacy and cultivating relationships with the president of korea and Prime Minister of japan. The washington declaration with the republic of korea and the work the u. S. And japan have done together to support japan and to enhance japans capabilities. One area that President Biden has particularly emphasized from his first conversations as president with both of these leaders was how to build stronger japan and r. O. K. Ties and how that is in the fundamental National Security interest of the United States. President biden encouraged both readers to take bold steps to improve their bilateral relationship and trilateral cooperation that will be on display today. As the r. O. K. And japan broke ground, the president was there and directed team to do the same. We have developed deep relationships on a trilateral faces with counterparts from japan and the r. O. K. The president has held three summits and this is the first time there will be a standalone trilateral summit of the three leaders. What will happen today . Today we are going to lay a Strong Foundation for this Trilateral Partnership to make sure it is deep, strong and built to last. We are opening a new era and making sure that iran has staying power. And that means regular rising meters leaders to discuss the broad regional strategy, Economic Partnership and more. We are announcing sniff can steps to enhance trilateral security in the face of north korean provocations including a multiyear exercise plan, Ballistic Missile defense and improving information sharing and crisis communication and the policy coordination that goes along with responding to contingencies in the indo pacific. We have initiatives including an Early Morning mechanism for supply chain disruptions and building partner capacity throughout the indo pacific including in the Maritime Security domain which will ensure that our cooperation benefits not just the people of our three countries but the people of the entire region yesterday. Yesterday curt and mira walked , through with you the specific deliverables, so i wont go into more detail. Now, suffice it to say this is a big deal. It is a historic event and it sets the conditions for a more peaceful and prosperous indo pacific and a stronger and more secure United States of america. So this is a worthy legacy for the president for president y for Prime Minister kashi and for all of the teams that have done so much work to get us to this point and to see this point, not just as the culmination, but the launch of this new era and trilateral cooperation that we believe will come to the strong benefit of each of our three countries. So with that, id be happy to take some questions. So theres been some analysis that the new missiles that north korea has kind of shown the world rely on some technology that may be coming from russia. Whats your current analysis of the degree to which they are collaborating on nuclear and missile related technology . And how big of an issue is it . We are concerned about the relationship including the technology and security relationship between russia and the dprk. In terms of the specific report youre referring to about russian missile, Missile Technology and north korean missiles. I dont have anything to add to that today. I will say its something our Intelligence Community is taking a hard look at. And this is also a dynamic picture because as we have seen russia has been seeking to get material for its war effort in ukraine, from pyongyang, from north korea. And as they have done with other countries like iran, when they ask, they usually also offer some types of Security Cooperation in return. So thats something that were taking a hard look at. And i would just point out that north korea is subject to multiple Un Security Council resolutions. Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council. It has a heightened responsibility to comply with those Security Council resolutions and to the extent it is not doing so including with respect to Ballistic MissileDefense Technology and other things russia would be, you know, in sort of flouting and in flagrant violation of u. N. Security council resolutions. Im not asserting that that is the case today. So im not validating that report. I am saying it is a matter of concern and it is a matter that we are very much looking into it. Youre announcing today, but is the goal eventually five years out, 10 years out, 20 years out to have actually a formal alliance and a mutual defense kind of pact here between these countries, is that where we should be headed . Secretary sullivan we have not set that as an explicit goal. We have not set in point of a formal Trilateral Alliance. We have strong and deep and decades long bilateral alliances with both japan and the r. O. K. We would like to see them continue to strengthen their cooperation and for this three way cooperation to get deeper and more institutionalized. Today, were announcing a commitment to consult among the three countries. That itself is a very significant step because it means that the three countries recognize their common interest in having a coherent and coordinated response to any contingency, security contingency. But im not pointing an arrow towards a defined end point of the kind youre talking about. Jake, the Washington Post reported overnight that the us does not expect ukraines military to be able to reach. Is that an accurate assessment of their counter offensive right now . Secretary sullivan so im not going to speak to intelligence reports. I will say that over the course of the past two years, there have been a lot ofyses of how this war would unfold coming from a lot of quarters. And weve seen numerous changes in those analyses over time as dynamic battle, battlefield conditions change. So what we have said from multiple podiums and multiple briefings remains the same, which is were doing everything we can to support ukraine in its counter offensive. Were not going to handicap the outcome. Were not going to predict whats going to happen because this war has been inherently unpredictable. And thats all i can say today, other than i believe and have confidence in the capacity and especially the bravery of the ukrainian fighters to continue to make progress on the battlefield. Back at the g7 in hiroshima, President Biden indicated both to his colleagues, his allies and to the world that he would support an effort to train ukrainian pilots on f16s. What we did this week is formalize through a letter from secretary blinken to his counterparts in europe that upon the completion of that training, the United States would be prepared in consultation with congress to approve Third Party Transfer of f16 aircraft to ukraine. That is the natural extension of what the president announced in hiroshima. There have, for reasons i dont fully understand, been questions about whether we were actually going to do that. So to put all of those questions to rest, then in fact, the training will be followed by the transfer as we work with congress to effectuate that and with our allies. You know, we underlined underscored and put an exclamation point on that this week. Officials have said there have been efforts to make it difficult to backtrack from the commitments made today during future administrations here in south korea and japan. Can you just expand on the paying power you described staying power you described earlier and what assurances this Trilateral Alliance can take away that the work of the summit will last beyond these administrations. Secretary sullivan id answer that in three ways. First, in terms of the actual mechanisms of collaboration. So the three countries are putting pen to paper to say we will meet annually at leader level and at every significant level of our government and the work between those meetings will set out further substantive progress. That alone, that kind of long term perspective on the cooperation between our three countries, the Trilateral Partnership, weve never seen that before. So thats on the process side. Second, you can see in specific outcomes of today, that same multiyear perspective. So for example, weve had one off exercises in the past, particularly in response to dprk provocations. What the leaders will commit to today is a multiyear planning process for the military exercises in all domains, air , land, sea undersea, cyber, etc. And that means that you will start to see a kind of momentum and inertia built into the planning processes of our three National Security establishments with a horizon that extends not just a year out or three years out but quite extensively. And then finally, the sheer breadth of the commitments being made today and the ways in which these commitments will stitch together our systems across economics, technology, people to people, regional cooperation, the traditional security domain mean that we believe that today is going to establish the kind of foundation that will make this Trilateral Partnership built to last. You know, of course, every leader is going to have to make decisions. But the architecture, the framework, the structure thats being put in place now, from our perspective, has a tailwind behind it that will propel it forward and be very difficult to knock off course. Republicans in the House Oversight committee are currently investigating the bidens family ties to foreign abuse. They specifically pointed to hunter biden. Is there concerned whether Hunter Bidens ties to china pose a Security Risk . Secretary sullivan i dont have any comment on that. Can you clarify if the u. S. Has authorized the transfer of the f16s materials to the European Partners. Secretary sullivan yes, of course. Were working closely with our European Partners on every element of the Training Program including the manuals as well as our people are working with their people. Our trainers are working with their trainers. So theres a full integration of the effort at this point. Does the u. S. Consider extending the invitation to ukraine that would potentially exclude the territory that are not under control right now. Control. Secretary sullivan right now, we have not gone further than what is stated in the vilnius document. And the vilnius document is what governs natos attitude toward an approach to ukraines eventual membership in nato and the invitation that we made made. Chinese hackers who have reached the us federal network and high level officials such as the secretary of commerce. Secretary sullivan i dont have an update for you today. Thank you. China has been critical of this trilateral meeting. Why should they not see whats happening today and the greater cooperation that youre talking about as the beginning of some kind of mininato for the pacific . Secretary sullivan well, first, its explicitly not and nato for the pacific, weve said that we will continue to underscore that and so will both japan and korea. Second, weve had a combined 150 years of Alliance Cooperation with japan and korea. So this is in that sense, the work that we are doing with these two countries is not new. What is new is that we are now stitching all of that Work Together to try to enhance regional stability and security. And i would just point out that in all of those decades of cooperation weve had with japan the r. O. K. , we have helped safeguard stability and security in the indo pacific. And that has created the conditions for all of the countries of the region to do well economically by the way, including china. And then finally, i would just underscore that this summit today, this partnership is not against anyone. It is for something, it is for a vision of the indo pacific that is free, open, secure and prosperous. This is an affirmative agenda. If you look at the deliverables, if you look at the joint statement, if you look at the principles that are coming out of today, they are not taking aim at a country, they are taking aim at an affirmative vision for how we can deliver results for the peoples of our countries, but also for people across the pacific. And so we are very proud of the work we are doing. We see it as a contributor, a net contributor to security in the region, to stability in the region and to enhance prosperity in the region. And we think it will be broadly welcomed by countries throughout the indo pacific from the Pacific Islands to asean to south asia