The White House had earlier confirmed Trump’s plans to travel to Chi, South Korea and Japan and on Friday said he also would travel to Vietm to participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and to the Philippines to attend a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian tions (ASEAN), Efe reports. One of the objectives of Trump’s Asia tour will be to “strengthen the intertiol resolve to confront the North Korean threat and ensure the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula,” the White House said in a statement.