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President Yoon Seok-yeol will hold bilateral summits with the United States and Japan, respectively, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week.
Kim Tae-hyo, first deputy director of the National Security Bureau, said in a briefing at the Yongsan presidential office on the 15th: “We are currently conducting some bilateral talks with the leaders of the major countries who attended the Assembly. General of the United Nations from 20 to 21. An agreement has been reached and the timetable is adjusting.
The US-Korea summit is the first in four months since US President Joe Biden’s visit to Korea on May 21. A senior official from the presidential office said: “It will be a meeting that will concretize the implementation plan developed by the relevant ministries since the last summit and the summit will re-identify and sympathize with more important issues.”
Regarding the Korea-Japan summit, he said: “We are pleased to agree that it would have been nice to meet this time,” he said. The Korea-Japan Summit is the first in two years and 10 months since President Moon Jae-in and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held bilateral talks at the Korea-China-Japan Summit in Chengdu, China in December. 2019. This is the first bilateral meeting held under the Yoon Seok-yeol administration.
On the 20th (local time), the first day of the United Nations General Assembly, President Yoon gives a speech in the tenth order. After the keynote, he meets the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. In-depth discussions will take place on regional and international issues, including the North Korea issue, and on ways to strengthen cooperation between the ROK and the United Nations. On the 21st, President Biden will attend a reception at the American Museum of Natural History. In addition, he will hold meetings with entrepreneurial and academic personalities and meetings with local compatriots.
Shin Hyun-ah, Hankyung.com reporter [email protected]
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