Trudeau talks Operation NEON, new ambassador to China in meeting with South Korean president | FULL

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol took questions from the media on Friday following a bilateral meeting during the president’s visit to Canada. The two leaders discussed trade and security issues in what is Yoon’s first visit to Canada since becoming president. “Canada has long been concerned with North Korea’s belligerence and threats of violence including nuclear violence,“ Trudeau said. “On deployed the naval ship HMCS Vancouver to begin operation NEON. This deployment will monitor the UN’s security council’s sanctions designed to pressure North Korea to abandon its weapons of mass destruction program,“ he added. The prime minister also commented on his appointment of career diplomat Jennifer May as Canada’s new ambassador to China as relations remain fraught. “China is certainly a challenging actor in the region. There are areas in which we’re going to have to figu