2023-07-12 00:35:49
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President Yoon Seok-yeol, who is visiting Lithuania to attend the NATO Summit, signed a stronger security cooperation agreement with NATO.
Today, there will also be a Korea-Japan summit with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida, which is expected to discuss the issue of contaminated water in Fukushima.
This is reporter Kim Min-chan.
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The first day of the official calendar of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and NATO summits.
President Yoon met with NATO Secretary-General and emphasized that security in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cannot be separated from each other.
At the same time, we expanded the scope and depth of cooperation in areas such as counter-terrorism, disarmament and non-proliferation, and emerging technologies, and formed a consensus of international cooperation on the North Korean nuclear issue.
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″Creating individually tailored programs to institutionalize the framework of cooperation and to discuss cooperation in the field of military intelligence and cyber with NATO…″
A series of bilateral talks were also held.
During the day, President Yoon met with the leaders of seven countries, including New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Hungary, to discuss ways to cooperate in areas such as security and advanced technology.
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″President Yoon and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban evaluated the fact that Korea is Hungary’s largest investor and decided to expand cooperation in electric vehicle batteries, science and technology, and bio..″
At the dinner attended by NATO leaders, he also met Ukrainian President Zelensky.
A Korea-Japan summit will also be held today.
The issue of contaminated water in Fukushima is expected to rise to the agenda, and an official from the Presidential Office said, “Contaminated water will be an opportunity to strengthen trust in the process of overcoming difficulties due to the natural disaster that occurred 12 to 13 years ago.”
President Yoon is also expected to attend the NATO Summit to seek ways to cooperate in security cooperation between the North American and European free camps and the Asia-Pacific region.
President Yoon, who will move to Poland as soon as the NATO summit is concluded, is expected to deal with the participation of Korean companies in the reconstruction of Ukraine as a major agenda item.
This is MBC News Kim Min-chan from Vilnius, Lithuania.
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