U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Seoul from May 20 to 22, and will hold his first summit with incoming South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol on May 21, Yoon’s spokesperson confirmed on Thursday.

The Yoon-Biden summit is set to occur less than two weeks after the South Korean president-elect’s inauguration on May 10.

“I expect the upcoming ROK-U.S. summit would be a timely meeting to discuss alliance issues … when North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat and insecurities in the global supply chain are worsening,” Yoon said, according to his spokesperson Bae Hyun-jin.

The spokesperson emphasized that this will be