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President Moon Jae-in proposed a summit meeting to meet in the near future after a congratulatory message to President Biden.

President Moon stressed that he will continue to cooperate with the Biden administration for peace on the Korean Peninsula.



[President Moon Jae-in (President of the National Security Council in 22 months): The peace process on the Korean Peninsula is not an option, it is a path that must be followed.

I hope that you will be determined to be the last one year given to the Korean government.] In



order to close the Korea-US summit as soon as possible, there is a prospect that the candidate for Foreign Minister Eui-yong Eui-yong is officially appointed as the minister, and that he will head to the United States soon.

There are many issues to be solved between us and the United States, including this issue on the Korean Peninsula.



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The expected cruise is the USFK defense cost-sharing negotiations that have been held for more than a year.



The mood is completely different from the days of Trump when demanding a $5 billion increase and pressured by the withdrawal of US forces in Korea.



President Biden said, "I will not extort Korea," when he was a presidential candidate, and the nominee of Defense Minister Austin also said, "We will pursue an early settlement of defense costs negotiations."



The issue of the ROK-U.S. combined training and the transition of wartime operational control is slightly clouded.



We are in a position to consult with the United States in response to North Korea's request to stop training, but the nominee of Defense Minister Higgs has offered substantial concessions from North Korea as a condition for stopping the training.



The Democratic Party Chairman of the House of Representatives Dong-A-Tae predicts that some of the coalition exercises that Trump had halted will resume.



Some analysts say that the Biden government, which puts China in check stance, will take a conservative stance on the swift opposition shift.



[Park Won-gon / Professor of International Area Studies, Handong University: (Biden Administration) also places importance on public control, so I think there is a possibility that it is possible to make a strategic judgment that it is more advantageous to have opposition



rights

.] There

is a prospect for a solution to the human rights problem in North Korea

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It is opaque.



The US House of Representatives has pledged to hold a bipartisan hearing on the law against North Korea's warfare spray, passed by the National Assembly at the end of last year.



Biden's Democratic Party also stated in its presidential policy that it would press the North Korean regime to stop human rights abuses.



(Video coverage: Jeong Seong-hwa, video editing: Park Seon, CG: Lee Jun-ho, Jo Soo-in)