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Biden Secret Service agents sent home after drunk assault report

U.S. President Joe Biden talks with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa as they arrive for a working session during the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain, on June 12, 2021. [Reuters]

Two U.S. Secret Service agents who were working on Joe Biden's trip to Asia are being sent home after one was accused of drunkenly assaulting a South Korean the day before the president arrived in Seoul, officials said.

A Yongsan district police official told Reuters that one of the agents was arrested in the early hours of Thursday after getting into a fight over a taxi.

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