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Officially informed the United Nations that the United States is leaving WHO. President Trump, who had accused him of taking the side of China, said he would end the relationship, and he did it. The WHO believes that the Corona19 pandemic has not yet reached its peak. It's a story that things may get worse, but there are concerns that there will be a big hole in international cooperation.

Correspondent Kim Yun-su reports from Washington.

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Senator Bob Menendes, secretary of the Democratic Party of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tweeted, "While the US president was in the midst of a corona pandemic, he was informed that he was officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization, WHO."

Foreign media have reported that the US government has given the same notice to the United Nations.

President Trump has been criticizing the WHO for failing to respond to China early in Corona19.

At the end of May, they declared a break with the WHO.

[Trump / President of the United States (last May 29): We are starting today to sever relations with the World Health Organization (WHO), will support the Fund was supporting the WHO in a separate urgent international public health needs -

one after The official withdrawal took place in a month, and there are concerns that the international community's cooperation with Corona 19 will be difficult as the United States, which provided the most funding to the WHO, withdrew.

As of last year, the U.S. has supported about 490 billion won, or 15% of the WHO annual budget.

UN officials have criticized the United States as a result of the coronary pandemic, ending the relationship with the WHO, putting Americans as well as the international community at risk.