US Senate passes resolution recognizing importance of US-Korea alliance

Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol listens as President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday, April 26, in Washington, D.C. AP-Yonhap

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a resolution welcoming the ongoing state visit of Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and highlighting the importance of the U.S.-Korea alliance, Congressional records showed Thursday.

The resolution, proposed earlier this week by a bipartisan group of senators, including Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman and ranking member of the Senate foreign relations committee, respectively, was passed by unanimous consent Wednesday.

"Such a swift passage of the resolution by the Senate shows the strong bipartisan support for the Korea-U.S. alliance, as well as the state visit within U.S. Congress," an official from the Korean embassy in Washington told reporters.

The resolution came on the day Yoon held a bilateral summit with President Joe Biden. (Yonhap)