President Joe Biden denounced his predecessor’s approach to North Korea on Friday, saying his objective as president is to accomplish the Korean Peninsula’s “complete denuclearization.” At a joint news conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Biden used former President Donald Trump’s high-profile meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, to demonstrate what he, Biden, would never do. “What I would not do is what has just happened,” said the president.” “I would not give him everything he wants, international legitimacy, and give him what allowed him to appear to be more serious about something he wasn’t at all serious about.”
Trump had three high-profile meetings with Kim, the first in Singapore in June 2018, the second in Hanoi the following February, and the third in June 2019. Trump walked several steps onto North Korean land during their third summit, becoming the first American president to do so. All three of Trump and Kim’s talks were nominally about disarmament. Nonetheless, rather than reducing his stockpile, Kim increased his country’s nuclear arsenal during Trump’s four years in office. Biden and Moon agreed to keep working together to denuclearize North Korea. As part of this process, Biden announced on Friday that Ambassador Sung Kim will be the United States’ special envoy to North Korea.
Sung Kim is a former ambassador to South Korea and a career diplomat. He was recently appointed to the position of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Another key item discussed by Biden and Moon on Friday was their respective countries’ continued reaction to Covid-19. Coronavirus vaccinations are now in low supply in South Korea. According to data from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, around 7% of South Koreans have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. In comparison, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 48 percent of Americans have got at least one vaccination. The CDC is an abbreviation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
During the press conference, Moon and Biden stated that the US will supply Covid-19 vaccinations to 550,000 Korean service men. Biden and Moon’s press conference came after an afternoon of meetings and festivities, including the presentation of the Presidential Medal of Honor to a Korean War soldier from the United States. Biden was entertaining a foreign leader at the White House for the second time as president. And it provided the president with an opportunity to demonstrate that, in his words, “America is back.” Moon applauded the fresh tone after four years of Trump’s isolationist foreign policy. “The world is welcome America’s comeback and holding higher aspirations for America’s leadership than ever before,” Moon remarked on Friday. However, as president, Biden has not spent the majority of his time focusing on international policy.
According to the president’s aides, he is primarily focused on executing his domestic programme, which includes two large measures to repair the nation’s infrastructure and support a variety of family and social programmes. However, as the past week has demonstrated, circumstances on the ground may fast push any White House to change its stance. Most recently, increased violence in Gaza between Israel and the Islamic terrorist group Hamas has captured much of the world’s attention during the last 11 days. According to Biden, a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is the “only answer.” Moreover, despite pressure from some Democrats to adopt a tougher stance on Israel’s bombings, Biden underscored that nothing has changed in his commitment to the long-standing US friend. “My commitment to Israel’s security has not changed. “End of storey.” He also complimented Egypt’s president, Abdel Al-Sisi, for performing a “commendable job” obtaining Hamas’ participation on a cease-fire that began early Friday morning.
