Biden announces US to vaccinate South Korean forces

U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in pledged to form a comprehensive partnership to "accelerate vaccine rollout to the world."

Biden announced that the U.S. would vaccinate 550,000 South Korean service members who serve alongside U.S. forces on the peninsula.

"Both for their sake as well as the sake of the American forces," Biden said of the vaccine offer.

This marks the first commitment by the Biden administration for what it plans to do with the 80 million vaccine doses it aims to distribute globally in the next six weeks.

Biden has said he hopes to use domestically produced vaccines as a modern-day arsenal of democracy, a reference to the U.S. effort to arm allies in World War II. At the same time, the White House has pledged not to attach policy conditions to countries receiving the doses as global vaccine diplomacy heats up.

Looking to increase global vaccine supplies, Biden said he had an "awfully, awfully, awfully ambitious proposal," to distribute vaccines internationally after all Americans had been vaccinated.

As the White House joint-news conference ended, a reporter from the Fox News Channel asked Biden about Unidentified Flying Objects, after former President Barack Obama spoke about them.

Biden replied: "I would ask him again."