{"id":2199065,"date":"2022-09-29T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/koreapro\/?p=2199065"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:11:31","slug":"harris-and-yoon-all-smiles-but-future-trouble-may-lurk-for-us-and-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koreapro.org\/2022\/09\/harris-and-yoon-all-smiles-but-future-trouble-may-lurk-for-us-and-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris and Yoon all smiles, but future trouble may lurk for US and South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol reaffirmed the alliance between their two countries, but a number of issues appear to have caused friction behind the scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n During their meeting on Thursday, Harris and Yoon reportedly <\/span>discussed<\/span><\/a> the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (<\/span>IRA<\/span><\/a>), gender inequality, North Korea and China.<\/span><\/p>\n The good news for Yoon is that the meeting lasted 85 minutes \u2014 much longer than his <\/span>brief interactions<\/span><\/a> with U.S. President Joe Biden in London and New York around a week ago. Harris is also reportedly <\/span>not hung up<\/span><\/a> about when the South Korean president recently appeared to call the U.S. Congress <\/span>\u201cbastards\u201d<\/span><\/a> last week.<\/span><\/p>\n The bad news is that Yoon doesn\u2019t look any closer to solving issues that have plagued relations with Washington lately, a disappointment considering the lengths he\u2019s gone to build up the U.S. as South Korea\u2019s best friend on the international stage.<\/span><\/p>\n