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Bloomberg

US President Joe Biden is planning to host South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol for a White House state dinner this spring, according to people familiar with the matter.
Preparations for the visit and state dinner are under way but the timing remains fluid, the people said. The current plan is for the visit to take place in late April.
The US and South Korea have deepened their cooperation on supply chain resilience to ease dependence on Chinese technology and on security matters as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ramps up his provocations. Pyongyang launched a record number of ballistic missiles last year.
Biden and Yoon spoke in November about their joint efforts to limit North Korea’s ability to fund and advance its unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes, according to a White House readout.
South Korea’s Yoon blames translation for furore over US hot-mic insult
Biden is expected to head to the region in May, when Japan hosts the G-7 summit.
The high-level dinner would be Biden’s second such event. He hosted French President Emmanuel Macron in December for the first state dinner in more than three years, an event which brought a host of business leaders and celebrities to dine on the White House South Lawn.
Spokespeople for the National Security Council didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. A message left at the South Korean embassy also wasn’t immediately returned.


Biden visited South Korea last year and is seeking more investment from its firms in the US. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. has made massive investments in a semiconductor factory in Texas.
Seoul has condemned Russia’s war on Ukraine and joined the global sanctions imposed on Moscow by the US and other nations around the world. South Korea has supported Kyiv with humanitarian aid but has stopped short of sending weapons to Ukraine.


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Joe Biden plans to host South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol for state dinner in April

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol (left) with US President Joe Biden at the 2022 Asean summit in Cambodia. Photo: -/YNA/dpa

US President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart President Yoon Suk-yeol (left) visit an air base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. File photo: EPA-EFE

South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol slammed for calling Iran the ‘enemy and biggest threat’ to UAE

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol (left) and his UAE counterpart, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, walk together to a state luncheon at the Qasr Al Watan presidential palace in Abu Dhabi. Photo: YNA/dpa

Yoon (centre, 2nd row) and his wife Kim Keon-hee (6th from left, 2nd row) pictured with a contingent of the Akh unit in the UAE. The Akh unit has been carrying out various missions since 2011. Photo: EPA-EFE

South Korea’s liberal opposition Democratic Party of Korea has said Yoon’s gaffe on his first overseas trip this year sent a wrong message that South Korea considered Iran as a potential enemy. Photo: AFP

Will security concerns over China, North Korea push Japan, South Korea to resolve wartime labour dispute?

South Korean opposition lawmakers and supporters of the victims of Japan’s wartime forced labour protest Yoon Suk-yeol government’s solution to the forced labour issue. Photo: AFP

A statue in the Botanic Garden in South Korea’s Pyeongchang of a girl (left), symbolising Korean “comfort women”, and a man resembling former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on his knees bowing to her. Photo: Kyodo

South Korea could investigate TV station for reporting on Yoon Suk-yeol’s hot-mic gaffe

Lawmakers of the ruling People Power Party hold a news conference in front of MBC TV in Seoul on Wednesday  during a visit to the broadcaster to demand an apology for its reports on President Yoon Suk-yeol’s hot-mic remarks. Photo: EPA-EFE

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol (centre) with US President Joe Biden (left) on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings last week. Photo: EPA-EFE

Unionists of MBC TV chant slogans protesting against the ruling party lawmakers’ visit to the broadcaster in Seoul on Wednesday. Photo: EPA-EFE

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Preparations for Yoon’s visit and the White House state dinner are under way as Washington and Seoul deepen defence and supply chain cooperation
Biden went to South Korea last year and is seeking more investment from its firms in the US


Preparations for Yoon’s visit and the White House state dinner are under way as Washington and Seoul deepen defence and supply chain cooperation.


United States

Joe Biden

Yoon Suk-yeol

Diplomacy