South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol kicked off a six-day trip to the US with a tour of a NASA facility Tuesday, ahead of joining President Joe Biden for a visit to the Korean War Memorial in Washington and a formal state visit at the White House.
This will feature lavish ceremonial events and a gala White House dinner.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters that Biden and Yoon have had four “engagements” since Yoon took office less than a year ago and “have developed a rapport.” “President Biden will reinforce and enhance our extended deterrence commitments to South Korea with respect to the threat” from North Korea, Sullivan said.
The South Korean president has seen his domestic approval ratings dive over his handling of a recent US intelligence leak that appeared to reveal Washington was spying on Seoul.“I believe that this matter is no reason to shake the ironclad trust that supports the US-South Korea alliance, because it is based on shared values like freedom,” Yoon told NBC News. “When you have that trust, you don’t get shaken.
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