South Korea's Moon Arrives at White House for Biden Meeting

South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived at the White House Friday afternoon for talks with President Joe Biden.

READ MORE: U.S. President Joe Biden meets Friday with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Moon is only the second world leader Biden has hosted since taking office in January. The visit may be Moon’s final trip to the United States as head of state and the last chance to fulfill campaign pledges before his term ends.

The discussions between the two leaders are set to occur just a few weeks after the Biden administration finalized its months-long review of North Korea policy, one that signals a departure from previous administrations by pursuing a “calibrated, practical approach,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

This shift in rhetoric — one that strays from the Obama-era “strategic patience,” while refraining from making flashy deals — has yielded a “sense of calm” as Moon and Biden prepare to engage in talks, said Jean Lee, director of the Korea program at the Wilson Center in Washington.

“When you use that rhetoric, that fire and fury, it gives North Korea the justification to test, and when they have that, it means the arsenal gets that much stronger,” Lee said. “The steadiness consistently being exuded by the Biden administration is designed to avoid this escalation of tensions we saw in the early parts of the Trump presidency.”

Moon welcomed this open-ended approach in a nationally televised speech marking his four-year anniversary on May 10. Issuing a call to action to restore inter-Korean dialogue, he vowed to do everything he could to “restart the clock of peace.”

[GameBoy_]

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[glenwelch]

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[rvpstudioscanada]

That lady that met South Korean President.. was she the Translator?

[TheNachoFriend]

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[jindagieksafar]

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[jamesrlewin]

What's it like to meet with a potato?