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US Secretary of State Stephen Vaughan, a North American negotiator, will visit Korea on the afternoon of today (7th). It looks like it will send a message urging North Korea to return to the dialogue, and Inner Minister Lee In-young emphasized the creative solution to inter-Korean relations.

This is reporter Kim Hye-young.

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U.S. Secretary of State Vegan is arriving at Osan Air Force Base this afternoon by military aircraft.

Tomorrow, Minister Kang Kyung-hwa, Deputy Minister Se-young Cho, and Head of Foreign Affairs, such as Lee Do-hoon, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will meet with the head of Security Affairs of the Blue House at the next day to discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

It is expected that vegan will also issue a message to North Korea urging the conversation.

It may not be a new anti-semitic proposal that North Korea wants, but there are many observations that it will contain the support of the South Korean government's independent move to improve inter-Korean relations.

In the midst of this, yesterday, Inner Minister Lee In-young emphasized a creative solution to advance inter-Korean relations despite sanctions against North Korea.

[Lee In-young/Minister of Unification (Yesterday): (I think there is a lot of restrictions on international sanctions.) I think the very problem is that we need a creative approach.] In

particular, regardless of the Korea-US working group, we will do it independently. He said that he would actively promote what he could do.

However, since international sanctions are still tight, and North Korea's criticism of the South Korean government continues to ask whether the United States is aware of it, it seems likely that the concrete realization of creative solutions that can change the situation will be key.