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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi left for Japan on the evening of the 4th after completing a two-day, one-night visit to Korea.
I also had a phone call with President Yoon Seok-yeol, who emphasized that Chairman Pelosi's visit to the JSA was a sign of deterrence against North Korea.
This is reporter Kang Min-woo.
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During an hour-long meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Speaker Kim Jin-pyo, who visited the National Assembly after 20 years as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, they discussed ways to strengthen the ROK-US alliance.
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[Nancy Pelosi / Speaker of the House of Representatives: The ROK-U.S. alliance, which started out of necessity, as a security necessity, has been reborn as a warm friendship.]
To develop into a comprehensive global alliance that expands cooperation beyond the security field to the economic and technological fields, the parliaments of both countries Let's support it together.
A consensus was also reached in supporting the establishment of peace on the Korean Peninsula based on deterrence against North Korea.
[Kim Jin-pyo/President of the National Assembly: Based on strong and expanded deterrence against North Korea, we decided to support the efforts of the two governments to achieve practical denuclearization and the establishment of peace through international cooperation and diplomatic dialogue.
] As he visited Korea right after his visit to Taiwan, which had been discussed so far, attention was paid to whether there would be any mention of cross-strait issues or US-China relations, but an official from the Speaker's Office said that no related agenda was mentioned at the meeting.
Chairman Pelosi visited the JSA at the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom to encourage the soldiers.
In the phone call, President Yoon evaluated Pelosi's visit to the JSA as a sign of a strong deterrence against North Korea through the ROK-US alliance.
Chairman Pelosi left for Japan on his last Asian tour last evening.