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President Moon meets with Japanese Prime Minister Suga for the first time “Especially nice to meet you”
Journalist Euncheol Lee [email protected]
Check-in: 2020-11-14 18:16:15Review: 2020-11-14 18:42:39Published: 2020-11-14 18:42:57
President Moon Jae-in is speaking at the’ASEAN + 3 ‘video summit held at the Blue House on the afternoon of the 14th. Yunhap news
“Dear President, leaders of each country. It is especially a pleasure to meet Japanese Prime Minister Suga. “
President Moon Jae-in made special mention of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who was the first to join the ASEAN + 3 (Korea, China, Japan) summit on the 14th via video. It is unusual to greet the leaders of a specific country at a multilateral summit. President Moon’s intention is interpreted to improve relations between Korea and Japan that were skewed during the tenure of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
President Moon attended the ’23rd ASEAN + 3 Summit ‘held by video at the Blue House that day. The ASEAN + 3 Summit includes Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Malaysian Prime Minister Muhi Dinh Yashin, Hassanal Volkia, King Brunei, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s National Advisor, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Joko Widodo. In attendance were President Moon, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, and Japanese Prime Minister Suga, as well as the leaders of 10 ASEAN countries, including the President of Indonesia, Prime Minister of Singapore Li Xianlong, Prime Minister of Laos, Tonlun Sisullit, and the Prime Minister of Thailand, Prayut Chanocha.
In his remarks for the day, President Moon said: “Dear President, leaders of each country” and emphasized the meeting with Prime Minister Suga, out of a total of 12 leaders, saying: “It is especially nice to meet Japanese Prime Minister Suga. President Moon said: “We gained valuable experience through the 1997 East Asian financial crisis. The crisis in one country was the crisis in neighboring countries, and we realized the importance of joint response and cooperation.” .
In general, there is a case of honoring the president by calling the leader of the presidency at the stage of a multilateral summit, but it is the reaction of politicians that it is not common to greet a specific country like President Moon on this day.
President Moon Jae-in (from the top right of the screen), Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attend the ASEAN + 3 video summit held at the Blue House on the afternoon of the 14th. Yunhap news
President Moon stressed the importance of improving relations between Korea and Japan, saying, “Let us accelerate communication efforts to resolve the problems between the two countries with a new mindset,” in his first normal call just after Suga took office. in September. Prime Minister Suga responded by saying: “We must not neglect our bilateral relations, which are in a very difficult situation.”
Since then, the Blue House and the government have taken extensive measures to improve relations between Japan and Korea. It is known that the director of the National Intelligence Service, Park Ji-won, visited Japan in a four-day program starting on the 8th and coordinated whether Prime Minister Suga will attend the Korea-China-Japan summit in Seoul this year.
Director Park also proposed a new Korea-Japan joint statement after the ‘Kim Dae-jung-Obuchi Statement’ at the place where Suga was prevented on the 10th.
Furthermore, Democrat Kim Jin-pyo, Chairman of the Korea-Japan Congress Union, also met with Prime Minister Suga on the 13th and added strength to the government by saying, “I will work hard to create the conditions and environment to resolve the problem”.
Journalist Euncheol Lee [email protected]
