State visit, 12 years after MB
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On the 26th of next month, President Yoon Seok-yeol will visit the United States in the form of a’state visit’ to mark the 70th anniversary of the ROK-US alliance, holding a summit meeting and a state dinner with US President Joe Biden. After the announcement of the compensation solution for victims of forced labor during the Japanese colonial era, he visited Japan in the middle of this month and met with President Biden in a month after normalizing relations between Korea and Japan with a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Considering the Korea-US-Japan summit, which is expected to take place at the G7 summit in May, a series of Korea-US-Japan summits will be held in March, Korea-Japan, April and Korea-US-Japan. It is the first state visit by a South Korean leader in 12 years, following then-President Lee Myung-bak’s in October 2011.
On the 7th, the presidential office said, “President Yoon and President Biden celebrated the achievements of the ROK-US alliance accumulated over the past 70 years while holding various schedules together, including a summit meeting and a state dinner scheduled for the 26th of next month, and conducted in-depth discussions on the future development direction of the alliance. We will have a discussion,” he said. The President’s Office said, “In particular, the two leaders will devise concrete and practical measures for cooperation in various fields, including the ROK-US combined defense posture and extended deterrence (nuclear umbrella), future advanced technology and economic security, cultural and people-to-people exchanges, and regional and international challenges.” said.
The White House also announced on the 7th (local time) in a statement under the name of a spokesperson, “President Biden and Mrs. Jill Biden will invite President Seok-yeol Yoon and First Lady Kim Kun-hee to the United States on the 26th of next month for a state visit.” President Yoon became the second state guest invited by the Biden administration following French President Emmanuel Macron in December of last year. The White House said, “This visit commemorates the 70th anniversary of the ROK-U.S. alliance, which is critical to peace, stability and prosperity in the United States, the Indo-Pacific, and the world.”
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Source: Donga
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