Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
President Trump is in Tokyo after making his first stop this weekend in Malaysia for an Asian summit meeting.
NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that Trump's hosts will include Japan's first female prime minister,
who took office just last week.
On route to Tokyo, President Trump said he looked forward to meeting Prime Minister Sanae Takeiichi,
who he noted was a great friend to the late ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
During Trump's first term, Abe entertained him with golf and Wagyu burgers to ease trade tensions.
Abe's protege, Takeiichi,
will try to do the same by purchasing U.S. rice, soybeans, and pickup trucks.
President Trump will also pay a visit to Japan's Emperor Naruhito and stop by the aircraft carrier USS George Washington at its home port in Yokosuka.
Japan.
Trump also said he expects to reach a deal in a meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a regional economic summit in South Korea.
Anthony Kuhn in PR News Seoul.
A US warship has docked in the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Trump administration has significantly boosted the U.S. military presence near the South American countries of Venezuela and Colombia.
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is an ally of President Trump's.
Graham says he believes Trump has decided that Venezuela's leader,
Nicolas Maduro, is a drug trafficker who needs to go.
These military assets are moving forward to deal with a country that's got blood on its hands when it comes to Americans by...
flooding our country with drugs from Venezuela and Colombia.