The President of the United States, Joe Biden is leaving for Asia today, on his first trip there since taking office. Biden is convinced that the confrontation with Russia has strengthened the American leadership, while he is careful that the hostile North Korean nuclear tests could break the optimistic scenario, write the American media.

He will first visit South Korea and then Japan on Sunday to hold summits with the countries' leaders. In Tokyo, Biden will also attend regional summits in Australia, India, Japan and the United States.

The trip is cited as evidence that the United States is further building on recent moves to strengthen its long-standing orientation toward Asia, where China's growing commercial and military power is increasingly pushing back decades of American leadership.

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan dismissed the idea that the war in Ukraine was taking Biden's attention away from that mission.