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President Yoon Seok-yeol is returning home today (1st) after finishing the schedule of the NATO summit for 3 nights and 5 days.
The presidential office cited requests for international support for resolving the North Korean nuclear issue and establishing a global network as diplomatic achievements.
Correspondent Park Won-kyung.
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On the last day of the NATO summit in Spain, President Yoon Seok-yeol met with the heads of the Czech Republic, Canada and the UK one after another.
We discussed cooperation programs with NATO Secretary-General, such as establishing a Korean representative office at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
During the five days and three nights, President Yoon handled 16 diplomatic events, including 10 bilateral talks.
[Kim Tae-hyo / First Deputy Director of National Security Office: I think that President Yun had a conversation with the heads of more than 30 countries, and the first step to successfully resolving summit diplomacy for five years was established.]
In the bilateral talks, the North Korean nuclear issue and the 2030 Busan Expo, and plans for cooperation in industries such as the defense industry and nuclear power plants.
[Sangmok Choi / Chief Economics Officer of the President’s Office: We will start this time with defense and nuclear power plants, but we expect that the list will continue to be added over the next five years.]
At the Korea-U.S.-Japan summit held in four years and nine months, trilateral cooperation to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue was intensively discussed.
[President Yun Seok-Yeol: The importance of cooperation between South Korea, the United States and Japan has grown even greater in a situation where the threat of North Korea's nuclear and missile threats is soaring and the instability of the international situation has grown.]
President Yoon attended the NATO summit for the first time as a Korean president and gave a speech on the topic of solidarity in the international community, expressing his will to strengthen relations with NATO in the future.
[President Seok-Yeol Yoon: The universal values that NATO
pursues, such as peace and security, human rights and democracy, are perfectly in line with the policy direction of the new government.]
The fact that the check against China has begun in earnest, such as defining it as a challenge, seems to be a burden for the Korean government.