soon, president biden will welcome south korea s president to the white house ahead of a critical meeting. biden and president yoon suk-yeol set to roll out a new plan to boost u.s. and south korean cooperation amid north korea s escalating threats. our correspondents are covering this meeting from washington to korea. cnn s arlette saenz is joining us from the white house. cnn s jeff zeleny is in washington, d.c. for us and paula hancocks is live from seoul, south korea. let us start with arlette. can you tell us what is happening at this hour? we heard the band playing the last time we spoke to you not too long ago. what s going on there now? sarah, any minute now we are expecting south korean president yoon arriving at the white house setting off the pomp and circumstance that president biden is holding for him, but it also comes as the two leaders are set to announce a significant agreement when it comes to efforts to try to deter north korea s nuclear capabilit
that is incredibly notable because as brianna was saying, it s been this long-standing practice of strategic ambiguity. basically, that means that the white house will say, china, don t do this. we don t want to see you do this, but they wouldn t exactly spell out what would happen if china were to do that. and the president, of course, did that today, saying the u.s. military would be involved in this. so, yes, afterward, you did see some of the president s aides try to walk this back saying he wasn t articulating any kind of change in his policy, but it is a policy difference for him to come out and say explicitly they would do that. not just that they would provide arms to ukraine or arms to taiwan and weapons to taiwan like they are doing with ukraine, but saying they would go one step further, john. of course, it s a statement the president has come close to saying before. he articulated it very bluntly with no clarifications, no caveats. you can have aides walk it bac
we will be jumping in to listen to president biden and president yoon when they do speak, but as we continue to see these fun picture, jeff zeleny, let me bring you back in. it does beg the question as there will be clearly a big focus foreign policy, the biden doctrine, joe biden s approach to foreign policy, his track record now on foreign policy, how important is that, and what role will that play in his re-election bid? kate, it is very important and these are striking images here seeing is president biden, the commander in chief, asking americans for a second chance at this, asking americans to elect the, indeed, oldest u.s. president to be their commander in chief. this is what he loves the most about the job, restoring these international alliances. one thing that has frustrated him is that he s been unable to bring the country together and he s revitalized international alliances and certainly his
should now start to do more and start to give more than just the humanitarian aid and financial aid that they ve been giving to ukraine because the fact is south korea is becoming a significant arms and weapons exporter and we know that they have a lot of ammunition which ukraine needs at this point. all right. our paula hancocks there, thank you to you, jeff zeleny and arlette saenz who is there watching all of this happen at the white house. we just saw both president yoon of south korea and president biden going back to do the work that we all want to know what happens after this. so we will be right back. there s much more on cnn news central ahead. okay everyone, our mission is complete balanced nutrition. together we provide nutrients to support immune,
states. president yoon, mrs. kim, you were kind enough to host me in seoul last year just ten days after your inauguration and jill and i are honored to be able to return some of your hospitality with your second state visit to this administration. [ speaking non-english ] this year marks the 70th anniversary of the alliance between our two nations.