US President Joe Biden and South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol are expected to agree on Wednesday to deepen collaboration to deter nuclear escalation by North Korea amid anxiety about its growing arsenal of missiles and bombs, US officials said.
Besides the pomp and pageantry the White House has scheduled, the two allies are using the first formal state visit by a South Korean leader in more than a decade to send a warning to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told a briefing the summit was expected to produce "major deliverables" on issues like extended deterrence, cyber security, climate mitigation, foreign assistance and economic investment. While the allies will affirm that diplomacy with North Korea is the best solution, Washington will announce that it will deploy imposing military technology, including a ballistic-missile submarine, to South Korea in a show of force, senior US administration officials told reporters in a briefing call. It will be the first such submarine visit since the 1980s, they said.
"This is modeled after what we did with European allies during the height of the Cold War in similar periods of potential external threat," said one senior Biden administration official. On Wednesday, Yoon will be feted with an elaborate ceremony and East Room dinner catered by a US chef whose mother emigrated from Korea.
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