President Yun Seok-yeol will hold bilateral summits with the United States and Japan, respectively, on the occasion of the UN General Assembly to be held in New York next week.
Kim Tae-hyo, first deputy director of the National Security Office, said at a briefing at the Yongsan presidential office on the 15th, “We are currently pursuing some bilateral talks with the leaders of major countries attending the UN General Assembly from the 20th to the 21st. An agreement has been reached and the time is being adjusted.”
The US-Korea summit is the first in four months since US President Joe Biden’s visit to Korea on May 21st. A high-ranking official in the presidential office said, “It will be a meeting that materializes 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 gladly agreed that it would be good to meet each other 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 time of the Korea-China-Japan summit held 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 UN General Assembly, President Yoon delivers a speech in the 10th order. After the keynote speech, he meets with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In-depth discussions will be held on regional and international issues, including the North Korean issue, and 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 business and academic figures and meetings with local compatriots.
Shin Hyun-ah, reporter at Hankyung.com sha0119@hankyung.com
