President Yoon to Make First South Korean State Visit to the U.S. in 12 Years
I did not realize it has been this long since an official state visit to the U.S. by a South Korean leader:
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will make a state visit to the United States late next month, and hold a summit with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the two countries’ alliance and deepen political, economic, security, and people-to-people ties.
Korea Times
The South Korean presidential office said Wednesday that Yoon will travel to the U.S. for a state visit in late April and that a state dinner is slated for April 26. The White House said U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and his South Korean counterpart Kim Sung-han discussed preparations for the upcoming visit by Yoon and his wife, Kim Keon Hee.
It will be the first state visit to the U.S. by a South Korean leader in 12 years. The last South Korean head of state to do that was former President Lee Myung-bak, who was invited by then U.S. President Barack Obama in October 2011. Also, Yoon will be the second state guest invited by Biden since his inauguration in January 2021.
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So he was called in by his mob boss?
And what more is he going to give away to the US for free?
He was going to offer Hunter your anal virginity but your sneaky uncle wouldn’t give it back.
Considering that the announcement came on the heels of the agreement between the ROK and Japan, the timing is noteworthy to say the least.
Seems like the US is rewarding Yoon for making amends with Japan.
Being invited to the White House on a state visit does mean more badly needed prestige points and boost for Yoon, just like Chun Doo Hwan’s state visit to the US in 1981.
Interesting you mention Chun the mass murderer that Washington backed and supported. But even Chun didn’t rack up massive record-breaking account deficits, two years in a row.
Korea posts current account deficit of $4.52 bil. in Jan. amid sluggish exports
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/biz/2023/03/488_346848.html
This guy is not only a disaster in foreign policy, he’s also a wrecking machine destroying South Korea’s economy exactly due to his ineptness in foreign policy-making which is leading to an economic collapse. Mass amounts of wealth with jobs are being shipped overseas, particularly to Biden’s USA, and he’s just watching with his drunk stupor while this is going on. He’s spending more time investigating and arresting people, dallying along with his masters in Tokyo and Washington, all the while Seoul burns with so many Koreans in economic hardship.
Both TOK and Korea Man have made a few good points.
This is a muvh better conversation than hillbillies and devious uncles.
As for Korea Man, I propose these ideas:
– Yoon is not shipping jobs overseas. Globalism has simply caught up to Korea. “Korean” companies are now multinationals and they are shedding their last traces of nationalism.
They are organizations independent of nationality, looking out only for themselves, and by extension, their multinational shareholders.
– The reason Korean companies are moving to America may have sonething to do with “Biden¹”, or more realistically the Administrative State² and the Deep State³.
But it mostly has to do with diversification in uncertain times. There is a very good chance of a world war (of sorts). This will not be fought in America, Russia, and China. It will be fought in Europe and East Asia.
America is a great place to locate factories for continutity of business. It is geographically safe from all but world-ending attack, it has plenty of resources if the government authorizes extraction, it can duplicate any international supply lines that fail.
America and China are going to go at it. Taiwan is more of an excuse than a reason. Korea may have some hard times.
“Korean” companies wish to minimize their risk.
¹Biden is a puppet… and not a very good one. Obama, Bush jr, Clinton were all better puppets. Bush sr. was on the team that controls puppets. Trump learned that the presidency is only for puppets and look what happened to him when he started pushing his own ideas.
²The Administrative State replace the spoils system after the assasination of President Garfield in 1881. Short version: professional bureaucrats with the advantage to enact longer-term plans but the disadvantage of fifedoms that pursue questionable agendas. Books could be written about this.
³The Deep State is really what guides America more than elected officials who have some leeway in certain areas but not in others. This is composed mostly of names you never heard of who work for think tanks and NGOs and big corporations and, of course, the action arm intelligence agencies. They make the long-term plans that elected officials must sell to the public. The list the roadblocks to achieving their goals and check off the boxes one by one via propaganda, blackmail, bribery, proxy violence, and the occassional suicided.
This is a muvh better conversation than hillbillies and devious uncles.
Let it be known that it was setnaffa who started things with his liberal use of the terms “hillbillies” and “devious uncles” and added to it “chinabots” which Chicken Head upped it by using “Chinaman”.
So does this mean that the Setnaffarians will stop using these offending terms?
And I see that Chicken Head has dived into more conspiracy theories which are the bread and butter of the Setnaffarians.
Which begs the question.
How can there be a “meaningful” conversation when the Setnaffarians insist on spreading fake news, misinformation, and conspiracy theories?
As always, if you disagree with anything I wrote, put it into quotes and explain why you disagree.
Everything I wrote there has facts backing it up.
We can argue over some of the analysis.
The coming WW3 went from possibilty to probability and now it has become an inevitability.
It is the only way to solve some serious problems that cannot otherwise be solved.
And the connected people and organizations which know about such things are making expensive and unpopular decisions that best make sense if they are viewed as preparation for a global war.
The form of this war is yet unknown.
It is likely a lot of small nations will join in hoping to solve some of their own problems.
And it has to be fought somewhere.
America, China, and Russia are off-limits.