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order to prevent further provocations by North Korea, we and the United States have decided to push for a new UN Security Council resolution.

In the midst of this, President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol's policy consultation delegation went to the United States to discuss current issues on the Korean Peninsula with the Biden administration.



Correspondent Yunsoo Kim from Washington reported what kind of story it was.



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top North Korean nuclear representatives from the United States and South Korea met in Washington, D.C., and agreed that a strong response from the UN Security Council is necessary to stop North Korea's provocations.



In particular, as North Korea is repeatedly violating existing UN Security Council resolutions, we decided to push for a new resolution to implement additional sanctions.



[Sung Kim/US State Department Special Representative for North Korea: We are looking forward to working with Roh Kyu-deok, head of the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiation Headquarters, to promote a new UN Security Council resolution.]



However, at the Security Council held on the 24th of last month, the weakest measure was Even the press statement condemning North Korea has failed, so it is unclear whether the new resolution will be adopted.



In the midst of this, President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol's policy consultation delegation, who was visiting the United States, met with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman to discuss current issues on the Korean Peninsula.



The delegation said that they had agreed to re-target the 'complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization' that North Korea had expressed objection to, and to restart the North Korea-response consultative body.



[Park Jin/Elected President of the Korea-U.S. Policy Consultative Delegation: We shared the view that it is important to restart the consultative body for expansion deterrence, which has not played a proper role for several years.



] Circular placement or deployment is also likely to be discussed.



President-elect Yoon's delegation also said that consensus was formed in upgrading the ROK-US alliance to a comprehensive strategic alliance that extends beyond the security dimension to all fields, including politics, economy, and society.



(Video coverage: Jeong-sik Oh, video editing: Seung-yeol Lee)