Joe and Jill Biden with Yoon Suk Yeol at a memorial site for Korean War veterans. Susan Walsh/AP
Yoon's state visit to the United States
Analysis: Attempts to rein in North Korea have failed
South Korean
President Yoon Suk Yeol is visiting the White House and Joe Biden today. During the visit, the US president is expected to renew his promise that US nuclear weapons will be deployed if North Korea were to carry out a nuclear attack.
The focus on deterrence can be seen as a remarkable admission that three decades of efforts to rein in Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program have failed, write the New York Times' David E Sanger and Choe Sang-Hun.
Yoon's visit is only the second state visit since Biden took office, and it may seem surprising that the newcomer is getting the honor. That's what Sung-Yoon Lee, professor of Korean studies at Tufts University in the USA, writes in The Conversation.
The explanation can be summed up in three words: Pyongyang, Beijing and Moscow.
The real purpose is to send a message of unity in the shadow of war and gunfire, he writes.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump. Seth Wenig/AP
The lawsuits against Fox News
Cheers at the Pentagon after Tucker Carlson's Fox sortie
The news that Fox is getting rid of conservative profile Tucker Carlson has caused glee all the way up in the top echelons of the Pentagon, according to Politico's data.
- Thank God, says a source within the Ministry of Defence.
Another says the US is a "better country" when Carlson can no longer attack the military in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers every night.
Carlson himself comments on the information about open joy in the defense with a short text message:
"Have! I can imagine".
Politico writes that the tensions between the television profile and the Pentagon are nothing new. Carlson has repeatedly attracted attention by mocking the military leadership during Joe Biden's time in power.
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