Photo : YONHAP News A senior South Korean official said that a joint statement adopted after the summit between the leaders of South Korea and the U.S. mentioned the Taiwan Strait to display Seoul s view that stability and peace in the region are in South Korea s national interest.
Appearing on a KBS program on Sunday, First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun made the remark when asked why the strait was mentioned in the summit between President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Joe Biden.
Choi said that it represents the two leaders recognition that maintaining stability and peace in that region is very important.
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During his Bogota stop, South Korea s First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-Kun expressed his country s concerns over Japan s intentions to release the contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the Asian nation s Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday in a statement.
Choi met with his Colombian counterpart, Francisco Echeverri, as well as Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez and Foreign Minister Claudia Blum, the ministry said to discuss Seoul s to take part in the IAEA-led monitoring and asked for Colombia s understanding and cooperation as a country that shares the Pacific Ocean, the statement added.
On the bilateral relations of nearly 60 years, Choi and Echeverri discussed efforts to achieve substantive cooperation in trade and investment, health, medicine, science and digital technology to overcome the covid -19 pandemic. Also on the agenda was Colombian President Iván Duque s visit to Korea, cooperation during the pandemic and Colombia s p