President Moon Jae-in made a summit with Philippine King of Korea, Philippine President Kim Dae-jung, and discussed ways to enhance friendship between the two countries and to strengthen practical cooperation.

This is the first time the King of Belgium has been the King of Belgium since he took office in 27 years.

President Moon said in his remarks, "Belgium's national motto of 'unity is strength' is a spirit of empathy for our people who want peaceful reunification."

Last month, I spoke about the outcome of the Hanoi summit, including the diplomatic and security environment on the Korean peninsula, and also thanked Belgium for its support.

King Philip praised the efforts of President Moon and the Korean government to settle peace on the Korean peninsula, and expressed his position to continue to support and cooperate with him.

"Belgium and Korea have a common challenge and a common opportunity," he said. "We want to learn a lot from every aspect, such as the fourth industrial revolution, globalization, climate change, digitization, and population aging trends."

"Korea is respected as a country that is strong enough to be an innovative country," he said. "It's surprising that Korea's 5G, artificial intelligence, and smart-city technology are amazing."

The two leaders shared a positive view that bilateral trade and investment has been expanding greatly since the two nations agreed on the steady development of friendship and cooperation since the two countries held diplomatic ties in 1901.

In addition, both countries have common ground in achieving economic growth through high external openness, excellent human resources and innovation, and have great potential for cooperation. In addition to existing cooperation fields such as chemicals, medicine, and logistics, · We decided to cooperate in new fields such as start-up.

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