After attending the Queen’s funeral, she went to New York.
Korea-U.S.-Korea-Japan summit is also underway
▲ Director of the National Security Office Kim Seong-han is briefing on the attendance of President Yoon Seok-yeol at the presidential office in Yongsan, Seoul on the afternoon of the 12th, the funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II of England and the schedule of attending the UN General Assembly.-Yonhap News
President Yoon Seok-yeol will deliver his first keynote speech at the United Nations General Assembly to be held in New York on the 20th. As North Korea declared its will to arm itself with nuclear weapons by declaring it an ‘irreversible nuclear power’, attention is focused on the message that President Yoon will reveal to the international community.
Kim Seong-han, head of the National Security Office, said at a briefing held at the presidential office in Yongsan on the 12th, “President Yoon is pursuing a tour of London, England, New York, and Canada from the 18th to the 24th for 5 nights and 7 days.” After attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in London on the 19th, President Yoon moves to New York to deliver the first day of the high-level keynote speech at the UN General Assembly on the 20th. Next, economic and diplomacy-related activities are planned in Canada. Regarding President Yoon’s attendance at the UN General Assembly, Director Kim said, “The international community is at an unprecedented turning point, a ‘watershed moment’. explained the meaning.
In particular, as North Korea officially announced that it will go on the path of upgrading its nuclear weapons along with the enactment of a nuclear force law, the UN General Assembly is held this year, and President Yun is expected to emphasize a unified response to the North Korean nuclear program in the international community. A high-ranking official from the presidential office said, “It will be an opportunity to once again emphasize the ‘bold initiative’ (the current government’s roadmap for denuclearization of North Korea), and to once again call for denuclearization so that North Korea can make the right choice at a critical time of transition. I hope it will happen,” he said.
It is said that the presidential office is also promoting bilateral talks with US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the UN General Assembly. A high-ranking official at the presidential office said, “I don’t know if it will be a bilateral meeting with Japan or a full-side (summary) meeting, but we are currently pursuing a meeting. said If the Korea-US summit is successful, it is expected that the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which excludes Korean electric vehicles from subsidies, will also be on the agenda.
After the UN General Assembly, President Yoon will travel to Canada for a summit meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Reporter Ahn Seok