While the Biden administration's efforts to increase arms and strengthen Russian sanctions against NATO failed due to cracks, it seems that arms increase and strengthening of Russian sanctions were applied to South Korea and Japan.
Regarding the NATO summit, the Washington Post reported on the 'rift between NATO allies', 'refusing the G7 to impose a price cap on Russian oil' and 'disagreement on continuing support for Ukraine', 'NATO Rapid Response Force currently 40,000 to 40 Frustrated with reinforcements only"
The WP, on the other hand, said, "According to the White House, Biden, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Il, and South Korean President Yun Seok-yeol met in private at the summit to discuss North Korea. I took part in an extensive debate about what this means.”
Regarding the expansion of US troops to NATO in Europe, “With the new deployment of US forces, the permanent headquarters of the Polish V Corps, which Putin has been resisting for a long time, and the rotating combat brigades in Romania, the strengthening of rotational deployments in the Baltic region, and 4 to 6 destroyers based in Rota, Spain Reinforcement, the addition of two F-35 squadrons to the UK, etc.”
In order to strengthen the Polish 5th Corps, South Korea is pushing to export the K-Speed-Propelled Artillery, which is a replica of US-made weapons and has the same standard.
"It was not clear what specific concessions Turkey had received in exchange for allowing Finland and Sweden to join Turkey's veto," the WP said. "I would like to express my special thanks to you for all the amazing things you are doing for this," he told Erdogan (Turkish President) before the closed meeting."
"White House officials said that Biden was intentionally not deeply involved in talks between Turkey, Finland and Sweden, but worked behind the scenes to finalize the agreement," the WP said.
"(January of this year) Biden invited the Finnish leader to the White House for more detailed discussion," the WP said. "While there was a discussion in the oval office, the two leaders called Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson one night around 10 o'clock on the phone to continue the conversation," the report said.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said on the 30th of last month that the U.S. Department of the Treasury was working closely with South Korean officials to impose historic sanctions on Russia, including blocking access to key technologies in the defense industry.
A press release from the Ministry of Finance said, “Brian Nelson, the Deputy Minister of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, visited Seoul from the 27th to the 29th to continue closely coordinating with the South Korean government regarding the response to the North Korean offensive and sanctions against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.” The Vice Minister visited Panmunjom and released a picture of him staring at North Korea alone.
Deputy Minister Nels said that he met for three days with Vice Minister of Unification Kim Ki-woong, FSC Vice Chairman Kim So-young, Foreign Ministry Director Yoon Seong-deok, and Ministry of Economy and Finance Director Park Il-young.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a press conference on a plane dedicated to attending the NATO summit on the 28th of last month that Treasury Secretary Allen will visit South Korea from the 19th to discuss sanctions against North Korea with South Korean officials.
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an executive order on the 30th of last month to transfer the Sakhalin energy investment assets of Japanese companies to the newly established company, Yomiuri reported on the 1st.
The natural gas and crude oil business of Japan's Mitsui 12.5% and Mitsubishi 10% has a 50% stake in Russia's Gazprom and has been supplying natural gas and crude oil directly from Sakhalin to Japan.
Gazprom announced in February that British Shell, with a 27.5 percent stake, would withdraw from sanctions against Russia.
The executive order stated that the Russian government would "transfer all rights and obligations" to the new limited company of Sakhalin Energy Investments.
Yomiuri said, "As an executive order, Gazprom's stake will be maintained, but other shareholders will have to decide within a month whether to agree to take over the new company's stock. If approved, it will apply to the Russian government, and if approved, investment can be maintained, but Russia's response is unclear. said.
Prime Minister Kishida Il said in remarks at the three-way summit on the 29th of last month that "If North Korea conducts a nuclear test, South Korea, the United States and Japan will respond, including joint exercises."
At the Korea-U.S.-Japan summit organized by the United States, President Yoon said, "As the threat of nuclear weapons and missiles from North Korea increases and the international situation becomes unstable, the importance of South Korea-US-Japan cooperation is growing more and more." "I want to fundamentally strengthen Japan's defense capabilities to strengthen it," Yomiuri reported on the 30th.
The AP said, “The US 5th Corps forward command headquarters is permanently stationed in Poland with a field support battalion. The 5th Corps command is in charge of the US Army’s European operations in Germany, so this measure is the first to establish a permanent US unit in the vicinity of Russia. It will be deployed,” he said on the 29th of last month.
After the end of World War II, as the Cold War intensified with the establishment of NATO led by the United States in Europe, in 1997, the Soviet Union and NATO agreed to ban the permanent presence of NATO forces in countries near the Soviet border and in Eastern Europe.