WASHINGTON \u2014 The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump will take a five-nation trip to the Asia Pacific region in November as the U.S. seeks to curb North Korea\u2019s growing nuclear threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The White House said Trump will travel to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines from Nov. 3-14, a trip that will also include a stop in Hawaii. It will be Trump\u2019s first visit to the region as president, and it comes as North Korea moves closer to its goal of having a nuclear-tipped missile that could strike the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The White House said Trump\u2019s visit would \u201cstrengthen the international resolve to confront the North Korean threat and ensure the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump has offered fiery rhetoric and a tough stance against the North\u2019s nuclear weapons program, declaring in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week that the U.S. would \u201ctotally destroy\u201d North Korea if provoked. North Korea responded with pledges to take the \u201chighest-level\u201d action against the United States and warned that it might conduct the \u201cmost powerful\u201d atmospheric hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump is also expected to discuss trade and economic ties to the region and will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even as Washington and Beijing grapple with that security crisis in North Korea, Trump has pressed China for more balanced trade with America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump has been openly critical of China\u2019s large trade surpluses with the United States and last month ordered an investigation into whether Beijing improperly pressures companies to hand over their technology in exchange for market access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His trip to China will come weeks after Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a second five-year term as the leader of China\u2019s communist party. Trump has sought to forge a personal relationship with Xi, hosting the Chinese president at his Mar-a-Lago resort in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a prelude to Trump\u2019s trip to China, Trump met Thursday with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong, who was attending the inaugural dialogue on people-to-people ties in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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