{"id":6680,"date":"2023-03-09T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2023\/03\/09\/south-korean-president-to-make-official-state-visit-to-us-in-april\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:00:03","slug":"south-korean-president-to-make-official-state-visit-to-us-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2023\/03\/09\/south-korean-president-to-make-official-state-visit-to-us-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean President to Make Official State Visit to US in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joe Biden will host his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk Yeol, for an official state visit on April 26.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday President Yoon\u2019s visit will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the security alliance between the United States and South Korea.\u00a0The alliance was formed after the three-year long Korean War ended with an armistice in 1953, which left the Korean peninsula split between the communist-run North and democratic-run South.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The visit is part of President Biden\u2019s efforts to build and maintain relationships with regional partners as a means to counterbalance China\u2019s growing military and economic presence, as well as North Korea\u2019s continued nuclear and ballistic missile program despite numerous United Nations sanctions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yoon\u2019s visit would be the first official state visit for a South Korean leader since 2011, when then-President Barack Obama hosted Lee Myung-bak. It would also be the second state visit for Biden, since hosting French President Emmanuel Macron last December.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some information for this report came from The Associated Press and Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joe Biden will host his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk Yeol, for an official state visit on April 26.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday President Yoon\u2019s visit will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the security alliance between the United States and South Korea.\u00a0The alliance was formed after the three-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":6681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}