British Prime Minister gave a warm handshake to an interpreter before betraying he’d realised his mistake as the actual South Korean President walked in behind him.
Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom got himself into a mix-up at the G7 summit in Canada on Wednesday as he apparently misinterpreted a smartly dressed bespectacled South Korean gentleman — reportedly an interpreter — for President Lee Jae-myung, also a smartly dressed bespectacled South Korean gentleman.
It might easily have been thought that Starmer was merely showing respect to the presidential aide, except as the actual President of South Korea entered, he exclaimed a tell-tale “ahh!” and laughed as he appeared to have realised what had happened.
The two leaders then spent time fussing as neither could seemingly
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