President Yoon's congratulatory message to Trump..."The Korea-U.S. alliance will shine".

President Yoon's congratulatory message on SNS..."Expect close cooperation"
"South Korea-U.S. relations expand and develop economic and high-tech cooperation"
"North Korean troops dispatched to Russia will not start full-fledged fighting"
"First half of state administration…Strengthen cooperation between Korea, the U.S. and Japan and curb North Korea"

[Anchor]
President Yoon Suk Yeol congratulated U.S. President-elect Trump and sent a message that the South Korea-U.S. alliance will shine more in the future.

The president's office said it will build a complete security posture between the U.S. and South Korea with the new administration to make the alliance stronger and more vital.

Reporter Kang Min-kyung reports.

[Reporter]
When former President Donald Trump's election was confirmed, President Yoon Suk Yeol immediately sent a congratulatory message on social media.

The future of the Korea-U.S. alliance and the U.S. will shine brighter, he said, adding that he looks forward to working closely together in the future.

The presidential office held a press conference and vowed to maintain a strong security posture even if the U.S. administration changes, as well as expand the relationship between the two countries to economic and high-tech cooperation.

[Kim Tae-hyo / 1st Deputy Director of the National Security Office: The government will establish a perfect security posture between South Korea and the U.S. so that our security is not swayed at all by the new administration in Washington.]

The presidential office says Yoon Suk Yeol will soon have the opportunity to communicate with the new president-elect of the United States.

Following the congratulatory message, it seems that they are also planning a phone call.

The president's office also expressed its position on the trend of North Korean troops dispatched to Russia.

It is believed to have moved to the Western Front, but it has not begun full-scale fighting.and

It maintained its position that it seems necessary to send a monitoring team to analyze weapons and prisoners used by the North Korean military.

The presidential office also cited the strengthening of the South Korea-U.S.-Japan cooperation system, increasing deterrence against North Korea, and nuclear power plant and defense sales diplomacy as the biggest diplomatic and security achievements of the Yoon Suk Yeol government in the first half of the state administration.

[Kim Tae-hyo / 1st Deputy Director of the National Security Office: We will connect our strategic command and the U.S. strategic command to integrate nuclear and conventional capabilities between South Korea and the U.S. to neutralize North Korea's nuclear and missile provocations.]

However, it was analyzed that the international situation in the second half of the Yoon Suk Yeol government, especially the equation for North Korea, will be more complicated due to the prolonged war in Ukraine and a series of conflicts in the Middle East.

As a result, the presidential office plans to start discussing mid- to long-term North Korea policy as soon as the new U.S. administration takes office in January next year.

I'm Kang Min-kyung of YTN.

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