U.S. President Donald Trump has once again mentioned South Korea and Japan in connection with the Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on the 2nd (local time), President Trump said, "You have Japan, you have South Korea. All these people are heading to Alaska to load fuel, to load oil, to build pipelines, and all that stuff."

President Trump's remarks came as he stated that he would "go to Alaska" to support Republican candidate Dan Sullivan, who is running for a third term in the state's U.S. Senate race.

Senator Sullivan recently advanced through the primary election alongside Democratic candidate Mary Peltola.

The two will face off in the general election, which utilizes a ranked-choice voting (RCV) system, with U.S. media outlets predicting a tight race.

Stating, "Dan Sullivan is a great senator," and "Nobody has helped Alaska more than Donald Trump. We've invested billions of dollars, and we've created trillions of dollars in value," President Trump suddenly brought up South Korea and Japan heading to Alaska.

President Trump's remarks are believed to refer to the "Alaska pipeline project to export natural gas to Asia" that he announced on January 20th while introducing trade agreements between the U.S. and the two countries.

At the time, after mentioning the project, President Trump emphasized, "By striking (trade) deals with South Korea and Japan, we secured unprecedented levels of funding."

This was an explanation regarding the agreement in which, instead of lowering reciprocal tariffs from 25% to 15% through trade deals with the U.S., South Korea pledged to carry out $350 billion and Japan $550 billion in investments in the United States.

The Alaska LNG project is one of President Trump's core policy initiatives, and the Trump administration has repeatedly raised the possibility that investment funds from South Korea and Japan could be funneled into it.

The project involves extracting natural gas from Alaska's North Slope region, building a new gas pipeline spanning approximately 1,300 kilometers to transport it to Nikiski, an ice-free port near Anchorage, where it would be liquefied and supplied to demand destinations.

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