President Biden will host South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for a state visit to the United States next month. The decision to host President Yoon Suk Yeol comes as the White House works to counter North Korea and China.
The decision to host South Korea over other allies signals the importance Biden has placed on countering North Korea, which has nuclear ambitions, launched an unprecedented number of missile tests and fired long-range missiles into the sea since Biden took office more than two years ago. The U.S.-China relationship is also at its lowest point in decades; Biden has prioritized strengthening alliances in the Indo-Pacific to counter Beijing.
Yoon faces a South Korean public that is increasingly debating whether they can still trust the United States to protect them in case of war on the peninsula. The shifting geopolitical landscape around South Korea in the past year — the unprecedented number of missile launches from North Korea, Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling and growing fears that China will invade Taiwan —U.S.
Biden officials also noted South Korea’s support of the administration’s position on Ukraine. Seoul has condemned Moscow, imposed financial sanctions and export controls on Russia and sent humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.Yoon’s visit to the White House will be his first as president, and is expected to be a major diplomatic event for the political novice. The former top prosecutor of South Korea made his first run at politics when he ran for the presidency.
Yoon’s administration is taking politically divisive steps to mend ties with Japan, which colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945. Seoul’s relations with Tokyo hit a low in 2018 after court rulings relating to a contentious issue over wartime forced labor. But Yoon has made overtures to Japan with the support of Washington, which is keen for its two strongest allies in Asia to improve relations.
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