Yoon to Receive Strategic Surveillance System Briefing at the Pentagon

First South Korean President to Visit... Also Visits U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to Discuss Technological Innovation

President Yoon Suk-yeol, who is on a state visit to the United States, will become the first Korean president to visit the U.S. Department of Defense's National Military Command Center (NMCC) on the 27th (local time).

According to the Blue House, President Yoon will visit the National Military Command Center after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon, the U.S. Department of Defense, in the afternoon. Although former Presidents Lee Myung-bak in 2011 and Park Geun-hye in 2015 visited the Pentagon, they did not visit the National Military Command Center. The former president was briefed on security situations by the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the tank room, a dedicated situation room for the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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The briefing by the U.S. military leadership at the National Military Command Center is reported to concern strategic surveillance systems and crisis response systems. A Blue House official explained, "The National Military Command Center is a key command and control center within the U.S. Department of Defense, serving as a critical facility that directly supports the U.S. president and major military commanders in times of emergency."

President Yoon will then visit the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA. He is the first foreign president to visit this facility. At DARPA, after receiving a briefing, President Yoon plans to exchange views on the research environment that maximizes creativity and imagination necessary for technological innovation.

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