South Korea’s president has joined a long line of singing world leaders

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol wowed guests at last night’s White House state dinner with an a cappella version of Don McLean’s, “American Pie.” But as The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports, he’s hardly the first world leader to serenade an audience in public.

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