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US Vice President Kamala Harris, ahead of her first visit to South Korea, criticized North Korea’s recent ballistic missile launch and announced that she would discuss gender equality issues with the Yun Seok-yeol administration.
In an interview with The New York Times, Vice President Harris, who is visiting Japan to attend the director-general of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said in an interview with the New York Times that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s recent actions were “unstable and provocative” and “we support the alliance.” .
These comments came almost simultaneously with North Korea’s launch of two short-range ballistic missiles from the East Sea, the New York Times reported.
Vice President Harris also said in an interview that he plans to raise concerns about the Yoon Seok-yeol administration’s gender equality policy through this visit.
The New York Times explained that South Korea has the largest wage gap between men and women among advanced countries, has less than a fifth of female lawmakers, and that the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family was President Yoon’s promise.
“I believe the degree of democracy can be measured by the status of women in a democratic country,” Harris said.
It will raise the issue of women’s representation “in all parts of the country’s system, including the government,” and will also hold a roundtable meeting with South Korean women leaders “to find a way to address this issue in a systematic way.” .