<Anchor>

The friendly economy of Kwon Ai, begins. It is difficult to say that Japan is the country that favored the export inspection procedure. Today, I decided to exclude our country from the whitelist.

<Reporter>

Yes, our government is prepared to look like that. Yesterday Korean and Japanese Foreign Ministers met in Bangkok for the first time after announcing Japan's economic retaliation. But it was really cool and I just checked that they were bigger than each other and I broke up.

This evening, the three foreign ministers of the three countries will hold three - party talks with US Secretary of State Pompeii.

But Japan 's ministerial meeting, which is sure to exclude Japan' s whitelist, ends in the morning before these three ministers meet.

There have been a few reports from the US government this week that it will act as an arbitrator between Korea and Japan.

Pompeii also made similar remarks to reporters. The Asahi Shimbun of Japan did this report yesterday.

If the US government officials do not approve of Japan to the extent that it has ever done so to Korea, but if it tries to exclude Korea from the whitelist, the US has warned that it thinks the US is bad, but that Japan will change its position that it will be bad in the future. It is.

But Japan is stubborn. One of Abe's closest aides, who is known to have planned this economic retaliation, has vowed that Korea will be excluded from 100% whitelisting by coming to Korea.

It is likely that the meeting of US and Japanese ministers this evening will be held after our country has already been excluded from the whitelist of Japan.

In the past, Korean lawmakers who went to Japan to talk with politicians between Korea and Japan who were originally exchanged came back to Japan yesterday, not only from the Japanese ruling party but also from Japanese opposition lawmakers.

<Anchor>

I have a few hours left in the cabinet meeting, and I'm excluded from the white list. Let me explain exactly how this is changing.

<Reporter>

The biggest problem is that you do not know exactly what it is. Japan will not take measures to prohibit the export of items we need. As a result, the cause that Japan is promoting in the international community disappears.

Instead, we are going to create an environment where Japan can take the initiative in uncertainty, the items we have needed so far.

In Japan, 857 items out of 1,120 strategic goods have been given generic comprehensive licenses so that they can be exported smoothly to countries that can be considered as security ally.

I am renewing my license once every three years. It was possible to receive your order immediately at any time. There are 27 countries in the world selected by Japan as this security ally, and this is a whitelist.

However, Korea does not enter here in the future. So, 857 items should be applied to the Japanese government for a period of 6 months, and it must be reviewed for 90 days before it is sent to the ship.

So in terms of importing, I do not go to the worst case without permission. It may cause damage. The cycle of predicting the demand for the required items is now too short and uncertain.

For example, three kinds of semiconductors and display materials that Japan is already implementing regulations are not allowed to go through a month.

I said it would be 90 days at most. "So I will do it in 60 days? Is it going to fill 90 days? In the meantime, the market conditions may change and you may need more or less of these items. It is this uncertainty that makes businesses the most difficult.

Supply and demand forecasts are uncertain. Japan will select specific items so that we can create an environment where we can make such a situation at any time.

<Anchor>

I wonder if there is anything more specific about what Japan is aiming for and what to say as it tells what items?

<Reporter>

I am going to try items that have a big impact on us and focus on Korea only. I think there are about 48 materials and items with more than 90% dependence on Japan.

We need to find alternatives to these alternatives, and how fast it can be replaced and how much we can raise the replacement rate.

Some of the items that seem to be difficult to substitute at the moment are crowded in the fields that we have identified as future food industry. It is time for the private sector to demonstrate our ability to respond to crises.