2023-04-29 14:45:00
On the 30th (local time), President Yoon Seok-yeol left for Korea after finishing his state visit to the United States.
President Yoon and his wife Kim Kun-hee boarded Flight 1 at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, the United States this morning.
At the airport, US Ambassador to Korea Philip Goldberg, Massachusetts Secretary of Economic Development Yvonne Hao, and US Ambassador to Korea Cho Hyun-dong came out to say goodbye.
President Yoon, who made a state visit to the United States for the first time as a Korean leader in 12 years, had a busy time with a Korea-US summit meeting, a joint speech at Congress, and a visit to a prestigious university.
President Yoon held a Korea-US summit with US President Joe Biden at the White House on the 26th.
At the official welcome ceremony, he received the highest honor, and at the summit, the ‘Washington Declaration’, which contained measures to strengthen extended deterrence against North Korea, was adopted. In effect, it is evaluated as strengthening the ROK-US Mutual Defense Treaty, including nuclear weapons.
At the state dinner, President Yoon personally sang Don McLean’s “American Pie” to lighten the mood. Even during his subsequent visit to the United States, President Yoon’s singing ability was a subject of interest.
President Yoon made a speech in English at a joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, looking back on the 70-year history of the Korea-U.S. alliance, and promising to fulfill his responsibility to defend liberal democracy in the international community.
In addition, President Yoon visited the US Department of Defense and received a report on the strategic surveillance system from the US military leadership. He was also the first foreign president to found the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
During this visit, President Yoon led a total investment of 5.9 billion dollars (about 7.9 trillion won). He agreed to an investment of 2.5 billion dollars (about 2.3 trillion won) from Netflix over 4 years, and was promised 1.9 billion dollars (about 2.5 trillion won) of investment by six American companies in the high-tech field. Corning also announced plans to invest 1.5 billion dollars (about 2 trillion won).
In Boston, he visited the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University. President Yoon was recorded as the first Korean president to visit MIT and the first incumbent Korean president to address Harvard.
At MIT, President Yoon listened to know-how in the digital and bio fields. In addition, at the Harvard Kennedy School, President Sun Yoon criticized North Korea as a force that threatens freedom and democracy, and said that ‘changing the status quo through force’ should be responded with ‘international solidarity’.
(Boston = News 1)
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