Yoon "Responses International Community Unity to Russia-North Korea Illegal Military Cooperation"

U.S. Secretary of State Blinken and Russia Lavrov also attended

"North Korea is engrossed in nuclear weapons and threatens humanitarian peace...It should be denuclearized"

Russia and North Korea call for united response to illegal military cooperation

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President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is visiting Laos, told a strategic forum attended by the United States and Russia that the international community should strengthen its response to illegal military cooperation between Russia and North Korea.President Yun

wrapped up his tour of three Southeast Asian countries and went home.Reporter Shin Yoon-jung reports from

Laos.

[Reporter]
On the last day of his six-day tour of Southeast Asia, President Yoon Suk Yeol attended the highest-level strategic forum and East Asia Summit involving 18 Indo-Pacific countries.

Leaders and delegations from ASEAN, Korea, Japan and China attended, with Secretary of State Tony Blinken from the United States and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov from Russia.President Yun

emphasized the need for denuclearization of North Korea in his agenda remarks, saying that North Korea, which is engaged in nuclear development to maintain its regime, would put peace in the Asia-Pacific region at risk.

He then called for a united response from the international community, saying that illegal military cooperation between Russia and North Korea is prolonging the war in Ukraine.

[Kim Tae-hyo / Deputy Director of the National Security Office: The international community should strengthen solidarity for a united response to military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, which directly violated UN Security Council resolutions....]

{President Yoon also asked for support for the August 15 Unification Doctrine', which presented the vision of a unified Korean Peninsula, and attention to North Korean human rights issues such as abductees.

In addition to security and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, it also promised to expand support for Myanmar, which has suffered civilian casualties since the military coup.President

Yoon concluded five bilateral meetings with the attendance of the ASEAN Summit after Australia.

Media in Laos, the host country of the meeting, reported on the establishment of comprehensive strategic partnership between South Korea and ASEAN in unison,

Japanese media also introduced the Korea-Japan summit, which took place for the first time since Ishiba took office, and predicted that cooperation between the two countries would be strengthened.

President Yoon, who completed his three-nation tour of Southeast Asia within 15 days of his official visit to the Czech Republic, is expected to attend the APEC and G20 summits in South America next month.Attempts to find a rebound in state affairs through diplomacy are expected to continue for the time being amid the tight political situation



I'm YTN Shin Yoon-jung from Vientiane.