if i present biden s it is not concerned about possible nuclear test from north korea which should be the first in nearly five years. the president is now in tokyo the second leg of the diplomatic tour. white house correspondent peter doocy is troubled with the president he is there as well, hi peter. good morning eric and arthel paid the president is already here in tokyo. he left south korea without ever going to the tmz to meet with his north korean leader, something his predecessor did on a trip they are. but are hearing maybe next time. owed me with the leader of north korea it would depend whether he was sincere and serious. that s on this trip this president trying to make china feel like north korea, isolated but critics say the chance to do that has come and gone. i think it is coming about 16 months too late because china is the number one threat we face but he wished president biden got there early in his tenure, not spent so much time in europe. not made his
months too late because china is the number one threat we face but he wished president biden got there early in his tenure, not spent so much time in europe. not made his very first glitzy international summit with vladimir putin last summer. another big headline from this trip the president is in the region north korea deals with the first known outbreak of covid. yes, we have offered vaccines. not only to north korea but you china as well. we are prepared to do that. as it turns out maybe that is not the only vaccine the world is going to need to be worried about. on the way here the president was talking about monkeypox. they haven t told me the level of exposure yet. it is something everyone should be concerned about. we are working on it hard to figure out what we need to do what vaccine may be available. if it were to spread, that s all