hour. join us for chris jansing reports every weekday from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. our continue coverages with katy tur right now. good to be with you. i m katy tur. president joe biden standing alongside leaders of japan and south korea. a first-of-its-kind trilateral meeting at camp david. japanese prime minister fumio kishida and south korean president yoon suk-yeol will deliver remarks alongside president biden in just a moment. since they are both individually our allies, you might wonder what makes this so special. south korea and japan are not exactly chummy. they ve got a long and a complicated history stemming largely from japan s brutal
35-year occupation of the peninsula. the united states has long tried to strengthen the relationship to create a more formidable bond across asia. but it hasn t quite worked until now. what s changed? and will today s summit lead to something in writing, a joint agreement between all three nations? what would that mean for china? joining me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell, who is at camp david, you saw her there with the president and the the director of the meeting. how did president biden get these two leaders to come and stand side by side at camp david today? reporter: part of it has been one of the themes of the biden presidency, where he s wanted to strengthen this relationship in part because of the rise of china economically and
and where economics and national security intersect, and they do for all three nations, that is a big part of what we ll see today. one of the things is discussion of an agreement that would move the nations closer to something that looks like what we have with nato, there aet on one nation would be a threat on all of them. it s not a explicit but they re talking about a consulting level on defense and security that if there s a threat to south korea, a threat to japan, the united states would be a part of that, and the other nations too. that is not explicitly to the of what we ve come to know with nato, but it is showing progress, the closeness of these three nations, not just with individual lines connecting them but freestanding as one. so that s part of what we ll see today. katy, as you point out, just being here in this setting is important, and often place can be a part of policy and politics. it certainly is today with the use of camp david and the important meetings that have
we reaffirm the importance of peace and stability across the taiwan strait as an indispensable element of prosperity and the international community recognizing there is no change in our basic positions on taiwan. we call for a peaceful resolution across the strait issues. the leaders their aides are at the podium. it s hard to see on this small monitor. andrea mitchell, our chief foreign relations correspondent, talk to me about how momentous this is for president biden. it s a very big deal. talking with republicans and democrats, anyone caring about foreign to policy, bringing these two countries together who were adversaries because of the atrocities of the japanese 37-year occupation of the peninsula and afterwards uncertain allies bringing them together, in this first summit and to do it at camp david,
place where the republic of korea, the united states, and japan proclaim that we will observe a rules-based international order and play key roles to enhance regional security and prosperity based on our shared valueees of freedom, human rights, and rule of law. today we, the three leaders, held the very first stand-alone summit, marking a new chapter in our trilateral cooperation. today, we have agreed on the camp david principles that will function as the enduring guidelines for our trilateral cooperation. in addition, we have developed a spirit of camp david, which is a document embodying the vision of our trilateral cooperation and ways to translate our will to cooperate into action. first of all, to facilitate the stable development of our trilateral cooperation, we have built the institutional basis for the trilateral cooperation