March 17, 2021
By JOOHEE CHO, ABC News
(SEOUL, South Korea) The U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has stressed that the American alliance with South Korea has “never been more important” given “unprecedented challenges from North Korea and China in his first trip to the country on Wednesday.
On his first day of a three-day trip to South Korea, the first cabinet-level U.S. official of the Biden Administration to visit the country together with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Austin’s entourage was greeted at the South Korean Ministry of Defense with an elaborate honor guard displayed by roughly 300 South Korean troops representing the various military services.
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