South Korean President Moon Jae-in received a boost in his outreach to North Korea last week after talks with US President Joe Biden. Biden announced he would be open to a summit with North Korea Chairman Kim Jong-un on the proviso that Kim would be willing to give up his nuclear weapons during a proper series of lead-up negotiations. This was in line with Moon’s post–Donald Trump approach to North Korea, given that the South Korean government now thinks that both sides need to “do more groundwork before the top leaders meet” to increase the chance of success.
WASHINGTON - South Korea President Moon Jae-in will be the first foreign leader to attend a Medal of Honour ceremony in the White House on Friday (May 21), where 94-year-old retired US Army colonel Ralph Puckett Jr will be celebrated for his acts of conspicuous gallantry during the Korean War when he was just 24.
The event will underscore what a senior administration official on Thursday described as an ironclad commitment to the United States-South Korea alliance dating back to the particularly bloody war between 1950 and 1953, which left the peninsula divided.
President Moon s summit with US President Joe Biden in Washington during the five-day trip is expected to produce a deepening of the bilateral alliance that is the linchpin of peace, security and prosperity for North-east Asia and the free and open Indo-Pacific , the official said, using the term ironclad three times to describe the alliance.
Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in is expected to seek to position himself once again as a mediator between Washington and Pyongyang when he meets his US counterpart Joe Biden this week.
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