Catoctin Mountains

The groundbreaking peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, then the unquestioned leader of the Arab world, very nearly foundered at Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, for which the accord would be named.

Members of Congress have been spirited away to bunkers at Fort McNair and tunnel complexes in the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland near Camp David, where an emptied-out White House has sent the President and all of the West Wing and many of the staffers who work in the Executive Office Building next to the White House.

The White House has billed the gathering of the three leaders at the rustic retreat in the Catoctin Mountains as a historic moment in the relationship and an opportunity for South Korea and Japan to move beyond decades of antagonism.

Biden is now looking to use the summit in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains to urge South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to turn the page on their countries’ difficult shared history.

Since then, a parade of foreign leaders have been invited to the 180-acre compound in the Catoctin Mountains of western Maryland.