Investors have balked at the project, stalling its progress. But under the threat of tariffs, Japan and South Korea have started exploring ways to invest in Alaska L.N.G.

Japan, South Korea and other countries want to partner with the United States in a "gigantic" natural gas pipeline in Alaska, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, claiming they would invest "trillions of dollars each.

South Korea's energy minister said a massive gas pipeline could help diversify the sources of natural gas and that the country would hold talks with the US to move the project forward.

South Korea and Japan are the latest major economies to move forward with AI regulations that could apply to some US companies, even as the Trump administration steps back from domestic rules around the technology.

US President Donald Trump is set to say Tuesday that South Korea, Japan and other countries want to be partners as his administration is working on a natural gas pipeline in Alaska, according to excerpts of his planned address to a joint session of Congress.

South Korea and the United States have agreed to establish a working-level group to discuss a gas pipeline project in Alaska, energy, shipbuilding, tariffs and non-tariff barriers, South Korea's Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun said on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump in his speech to Congress on Tuesday referenced South Korea as a country that unfairly benefits from America’s economic and security commitments.