‘Frequency’ Choi Jong-gun “Frequent irrationality, alliances do not match the realistic framework”

First Deputy Foreign Minister Choi Jong-gun greets US Ambassador Harry Harris on the afternoon of the 31st at the Foreign Ministry office in Jongno-gu, Seoul. [서울=뉴시스]

Choi Jong-Geon, the new Vice Minister of the Foreign Ministry, referred to as the ‘own frequency’ within the government, met with US Ambassador Harry Harris at the Foreign Ministry office on the 31st to discuss relations between the United States and Korea. How to improve the “Task Force”, a consultative body on sanctions between the Republic of Korea and the United States, is known to have not been discussed. After meeting with Ambassador Harris on the same day, Vice Minister Choi met with reporters and argued that it was rated as “self-frequent”, saying, “I cannot agree with the framework that is often irrational and the alliance is realistic.” .

When asked if there was any discussion on how to improve the working group, Choi said, “There was no such thing.” When I was in the Blue House (as Secretary of Diplomatic Peace Planning), I didn’t repeat it because I had already communicated a lot with the US Ambassador Harris said on Twitter after meeting with Vice Minister Choi that day: “It was a great reunion. We discussed all the issues related to the ROK-US alliance, ”he wrote. According to diplomatic sources, the two were initially scheduled to be interviewed for 30 minutes, but this happened and they spoke for about 50 minutes. The source said: “Ambassador Harris left the office in about 25 minutes, half the time scheduled for the interview, with Lee In-young, the Unification minister, on the 19th (having a nervous war over the Group of work)”.

In the first press conference after taking office, Vice Minister Choi said: “Cooperation between the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiation Headquarters, the Blue House National Security Office, the National Security Council (NSC) and the Special Representative of the State Department in North Korea (the department in charge) at the first press conference. “This is going very well,” he said. “In that regard, the ROK and the United States are going in the same direction because we expect the Working Group’s response to proceed at a fairly rapid pace after the inter-Korean slope (which requires the South Korean government to determine whether or not they violate the sanctions).

When asked what he thinks about being called a ‘own frequency wave’, Vice Minister Choi said: “The alliance of self-reliance is the framework of the 20th century.” He said: “The columns and theses that I wrote as a professor can be interpreted like this (as a frequency), but since I got to the diplomatic reality, I do not force the choice of the extreme under any circumstances, unlike the speech that I shared outside (myself). He said: “I have to carry on my shoulders the things that are called self-propelled because of the thesis that I wrote.”
However, he said, “When I got into the real world, that assessment was not accurate,” he said. “I cannot agree with the framework that is often irrational and alliances are realistic.” Vice Minister Choi said, “We are always more active in consultations and negotiations” on Korea-Japan relations. In consultation with his counterpart, US Secretary of State Stephen Vegan, he also said he will “move forward soon.”

Vice Minister Choi said: “Under the leadership of Minister Kang Gyeong-hwa (the issue of strengthening diplomatic power and creating a Ministry of Foreign Affairs that meets the needs of the people), it worked well, but the power will weaken in the second half of the regime, so I will contribute to the Minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in that area. ” said. It was evaluated to be a part that showed the appearance as a ‘real loan’.

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