Arrived yesterday in New York, the first stage of his American trip, the South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs was received the same day by the Secretary General of the United Nations.
At the end of this head-to-head, Park Jin had a brief exchange with South Korean journalists. He then said that during the interview, Antonio Guterres expressed his full support for the Seoul government’s efforts to bring lasting peace to the peninsula.
According to the head of South Korean diplomacy, the head of the UN at the same time indicated that a possible new nuclear test by North Korea would be a decisive threat to peace in the region and in the world, and that he conveyed to the Kim Jong-un regime his deep concern in this regard.
Also during this meeting, Park promised that the country of the Morning Light would increase its contribution to the peacekeeping operations of the international organization. He also referred to the fact that its president Yoon Suk-yeol expressed his particular interest in digital cooperation in his speech at the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly last September. Without forgetting to mention the first Indo-Pacific strategy of his administration.
Earlier in the day, the minister invited the ambassadors of several member states of the Security Council to lunch. The opportunity for him to exchange with them on the question of the peninsula and to present to them the initiative of the Seoul government aimed at making South Korea one of the pivotal countries in the world. He also took the opportunity to urge the UN security body to take strong measures against the repeated violations of its resolutions by Pyongyang.
