Foreign Minister Park Jin and Ahn Kwang-il, North Korean ambassador to Indonesia and ambassador to ASEAN, attend a welcome dinner presided over by the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held at the CICC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on the 4th (local time) and have a conversation. yunhap news
Foreign Minister Park Jin, who visited Phnom Penh, Cambodia to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, met North Korean Ambassador to ASEAN Ahn Kwang-il and Ambassador to Indonesia and proposed unconditional inter-Korean dialogue.
According to Yonhap News on the 6th, Minister Park met Ambassador Ahn at the welcome dinner held at the CICC event in Phnom Penh on the 4th and had a brief conversation. Regarding the dialogue, a high-ranking foreign ministry official said that Minister Park at the time told Ambassador Ahn that he wanted unconditional inter-Korean dialogue and that he hoped for denuclearization to take place for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. He said he replied briefly.
Foreign Minister Park Jin and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi are seated following taking a commemorative photo during a bilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Korea and Japan at the Sokha Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on the 4th. yunhap news
Meanwhile, Minister Park is known to have requested the Japanese side to withdraw Japan’s export restrictions to Korea in order to improve bilateral relations at the Korea-Japan Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in Phnom Penh on the 4th. A high-ranking foreign ministry official said, “In the process of South Korea finding a desirable solution to improve Korea-Japan relations, Japan emphasized the need to show sincerity in its own way by withdrawing export controls.”
On the 9th, the Korea-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting will be held in Phnom Penh. Earlier, at the East Asian Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held before the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Minister Park said, “A unilateral change in the status quo by force is unacceptable under any circumstances.” mentioned The expression ‘unilateral change of the status quo by force’ is an expression frequently used by the United States and Japan in relation to the Taiwan issue. Some analysts say that South Korea is keeping pace with the positions of the United States and Japan regarding the Taiwan Strait incident.
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