During the ASEAN+3 summit meeting, President Moon Jae-in affirmed that his vision for East Asian and Southeast Asian countries is ultimately regional peace and co-prosperity.
To move toward the formation of the East Asian Community, President Moon introduced some important areas of cooperation and the role of South Korea within those. including building stronger crisis system, and logistical system for cooperation.
President Moon also underscored the importance of cultivating human talent through cross-border education, and he insisted that countries must work together to improve the quality of life for all members of the ASEAN community
In Singapore on Thursday, President Moon Jae-in and the U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reaffirmed their countries' strong alliance of 65 years as they discussed the latest diplomacy related to North Korea.
Meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN annual regional summits, Moon and Pence held their first face-to-face since February and the first since talks were called off last week between the U.S. and the North that would have been about the next summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump.
President Moon said it was the South Korea-U.S. alliance that brought North Korea into dialogue in the first place. and made the progress so far possible.
To that,… Pence said he looks forward to the next meeting between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un, and that Trump believes a second summit will lay a strong foundation for the joint objective of the region's long-term denuclearization.
According to Seoul's Unification Ministry, Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun and other executives, government officials and press will be going to the North’s Geumgangsan Mountain on Sunday. to celebrate the 20th anniversary of tours there.
Around 80 North Koreans will also attend the celebration, which will include performances, commemorative tree-planting and a banquet.
The Geumgangsan tour program originally was a gesture of inter-Korean reconciliation, but it's been suspended around a decade ago, due to a shooting incident.
Meanwhile, the ministry made it clear the trip has nothing to do with resuming the tour programs.
For the first time in 11 years, North Korean senior officials looked around some economic facilities in South Korea.
On Thursday, the five-member, high-level delegation from North Korea led by Ri Jong-hyok, vice chairman of Pyeongyang's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, visited the Pangyo Techno Valley in Gyeonggi-do Province a major high-tech industrial complex built as a hub to test out fourth industrial revolution technologies.
In the afternoon, Ri visited a farming technology complex in the same province, touring around smart farms and greenhouses.
Experts say after Kim Jong-un took power, Pyeongyang has been stressing the importance of advanced science and technology, and is now looking for ways to adopt technology to farming to improve food situation.
Meanwhile, Pyeongyang's delegation came to the South upon an invitation from the province of Gyeonggi-do, not the Seoul government, to take part in an international conference on Friday.
Source: Arirang News
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