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Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha visited the United States early next week to meet with Secretary Pompeo as well as members of Biden's diplomatic and security lines.

It has been confirmed that there are more Biden personnel currently coordinating the interview schedule, which appears to be a sort of pre-suspended business in preparation for the launch of the Biden administration.



Reporter Kim Hye-young covered it.



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Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha visits the United States for talks with US Secretary of State Pompeo on the 9th. I plan to meet the founder.



In addition to them, Minister Kang is also coordinating additional interviews with Biden's members, including Senator Bob Menendes, Democratic Secretary of the Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Party Senator Chris Murphy, and Director of the John Allan Brookings Institute.



An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it has not been confirmed yet, and that even if it is confirmed, it cannot be confirmed officially.



It is interpreted as saving words in that it is a kind of pre-stop work in preparation for the launch of the Biden administration.



For the Biden administration, which values ​​alliances, it is expected that Trump-like ``terrors'' will disappear from key issues of ROK-US relations such as US forces in Korea and defense cost negotiations.



However, even if the method becomes smooth, the demand to join the anti-Chinese solidarity symbolized by the quad will still remain,



[Park Chang-kwon/Fellow of the Higher Defense Policy Research Institute: (Quad) is the Trump administration institutionalizing what had already started and developed with the Obama administration.] In



particular, as the words said 7 years ago during his visit to Korea, the order to improve relations between Korea and Japan is expected to be stronger. I can see it.



[Biden/Vice President of the United States at the time (visit to Korea in 2013): If major democratic countries such as Japan, South Korea, and the United States improve relations and cooperation with each other, the whole region will be more stable and safer.]



However, even with Obama’s mediation between Korea and Japan There are also observations that Biden's approach will change in that the relationship has experienced a regression to the origin.



(Video coverage: Jung Seong-hwa, video editing: Choi Hye-young, CG: Eom So-min, Jegal-chan)