President Yoon wraps up the schedule for the NATO summit... return home today

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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.

Reporter Park Won-kyung reports.

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On the last day of the NATO summit in Spain, President Yun Seok-yeol met with the heads of the Czech Republic, Canada and the UK one after another.

He discussed cooperation programs with NATO Secretary-General, such as establishing a Korean delegation 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 aligned with the policy direction of the new government.]

The fact that the Chinese government began to contain China in earnest, such as defining it as a challenge to Korea, seems to be a burden for the Korean government.