"Building a perfect security posture with the new administration...The Korea-U.S. alliance is stronger and more energetic."

Presidential Office "South Korea-U.S. Alliance to Global Comprehensive Strategic Alliance"

"South Korea-U.S. relations expanded to economic and high-tech cooperation"

"North Korean troops dispatched to Russia will not start full-fledged fighting."

[Anchor]
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.

He said he expects to see an opportunity for communication between President Yoon Suk Yeol and the president-elect in the near future.

Reporter Kang Min-kyung reports.

[Reporter]
The halfway point of Yoon's presidency was that the president's office promised to turn the South Korea-U.S. alliance into a stronger and more energetic "global comprehensive strategic alliance."

Even if a new administration is established in the U.S. early next year, he vowed to maintain a strong security posture and 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 explained that our government has been in close policy consultations with the Republican Party of the United States, the Democratic Party, and presidential candidates from both sides.

President Yoon Suk Yeol has announced that he will soon have the opportunity to communicate with the new president-elect of the United States.

The president's office analyzed that a large number of North Korean troops sent to Russia are believed to have moved to the western front, but they have not begun full-fledged fighting.

Regarding whether to send a monitoring team to Ukraine, he maintained that it seems necessary to analyze weapons and prisoners used by the North Korean military, although it is not in the final stage.

He also stressed that the National Assembly's consent is not necessary as the opposition party claims, as it is not sending troops from the South 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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