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President Yoon Seok-yeol, who attended the NATO summit, returned home today (1st) during the day.

President Yoon said that the leaders of the three countries - South Korea, the United States and Japan - have agreed on the principle of resuming military and security cooperation to respond to the North Korean nuclear program.



Correspondent Kim Ki-tae.



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During an in-flight meeting on the way home, President Yoon Seok-yeol selected the 'Korea-US-Japan-Japan summit' as the most impressive schedule and said, "The three heads of state have reached an agreement to resume military and security cooperation to respond to the North Korean nuclear program."

[President Yoon Seok- yeol



: We can say that we have reached agreement on the principle that it is desirable to resume some military and security cooperation, such as these.]



interpretation has been proposed.



However, a high-ranking official from the presidential office explained, "It means that the South Korea, the US and Japan have had an opportunity to discuss anything by looking at the security situation, such as whether North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon, but no specific details were discussed."



President Yoon further said that South Korea and Japan can discuss past and future issues at one table.



[President Seok-Yeol Yoon: The mindset that, if there is no progress between the two countries on past history issues, we cannot discuss current issues and future issues should be avoided.]



He emphasized that he did not intend to rule out China's opposition to the NATO summit .

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[President Seok-Yeol Yoon: There is no need to mention a specific country.

I think that there is no like or dislike depending on the country.]



However, the Democratic Party criticized it as "a novice president's hasty diplomacy", saying "it could pull back relations with China and Russia."



At the Seoul Airport where President Yoon returned to Korea, Lee Jun-seok, representative of the People's Power, who did not appear on the way out, came to meet him.



Representative Lee said, "I didn't go to the airport, but there were a lot of extended interpretations, so I went today."



(Video coverage: Joo Beom and Choi Dae-woong, Video editing: Choi Jin-hwa)