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Weekend: President Biden visits South Korea

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President Biden visits South Korea

21/05/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, President Biden visits South Korea

Joe Biden has arrived in the South Korean capital Seoul on an official trip

Joe Biden has arrived in the South Korean capital Seoul on an official trip.

President Biden is in South Korea, but what does he want, and what does Seoul want in return?

Also, at the tender age of 16, Haley Taylor Schlitz was accepted into nine different law schools across the United States.  Three years later at the age of 19, she has become the youngest ever black law school graduate in America.

Plus, the volunteer drivers helping evacuate people from the Ukrainian city of Kherson.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are John Nilsson-Wright, Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge & Senior Fellow for Northeast Asia at the London-based research organisation, Chatham House; and Ramita Navai, a British-Iranian film-maker, journalist and author based in London.

(Image: US President Joe Biden visits the Seoul National Cemetery in Seoul, South Korea. Credit: EPA)

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