'The Biden administration should receive [South Korean President] Yoon with all the trappings of a state visit, the highest-level visit by a head of state, and Congress should invite Yoon to address a joint session,' Bruce Klingner writes.
bilateral relations with Washington and brought South Korean foreign and security policies into close alignment with those of the United States. Yoon declared that a strong alliance with the United States would serve as the foundation for South Korea’s foreign relations with North Korea, Japan, and China. Last year, Presidents Yoon and Joe Biden upgraded the relationship to a global comprehensive strategic alliance.
Under Yoon, South Korea is now willing to respond to North Korean provocations with resolute displays of military strength. Yoon agreed to the Biden administration’s request to resume bilateral, which the U.S. had unilaterally curtailed since 2018. Yoon and Biden agreed to expand the scope and scale of those combined military exercises, as well as the rotational deployment of U.S. strategic assets—bombers, aircraft carriers, and dual-capable aircraft—to the Korean Peninsula.
Yoon has clearly aligned South Korea with the United States and other like-minded democracies in opposing China’s coercive tactics to intimidate Asian nations. Under Yoon, South Korea is more likely to adopt a firmer approach toward countering Chinese transgressions.
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