South Korea's Yoon visits Massachusetts Statehouse

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday stopped at the Massachusetts Statehouse ahead of a talk at Harvard University as he wrapped up a state visit to the United States. Yoon was greeted on the steps of the historic gold-domed building in Boston just after noon by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey.

Later in the day, Yoon was scheduled to deliver a speech “on the challenges to freedom and the responses to them” at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge. The stops in Boston and Cambridge come after Yoon visited Washington.

Yoon spoke to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday and praised the U.S.-South Korea security partnership. Yoon and President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced an agreement for intensified nuclear deterrence. Biden hosted a state dinner for Yoon and his wife that included big names from politics, business, sports and entertainment.