2023-05-03 00:53:00
The President’s Office Rebuts the ‘Washington Declaration’
Representative Korean Tong in the U.S. Administration
Ed Kagan (right), senior director for East Asia and Oceania at the White House National Security Council (NSC), holds a meeting with Korean correspondents at the US State Department building in Washington, DC on the 27th (local time) of last month. yunhap news
Ed Kagan, senior director for East Asia and Oceania at the White House National Security Council (NSC), who refuted the Presidential Office’s assessment of the ‘Washington Declaration’ adopted at the Korea-US summit, saying, “We do not view it as ‘de facto nuclear sharing’.” Appointed as US Ambassador to Malaysia.
The White House announced on the 2nd (local time) that US President Joe Biden had nominated Director Kagan as the ambassador extraordinarily and plenipotentiarily to Malaysia. Kagan, who graduated from Yale University and worked in the US State Department since 1991, served as the head of the State Department’s Korean section in the Barack Obama administration. counted as
In particular, when asked at a meeting related to the Korea-US summit on the 27th of last month, “Do you agree with the Korean government’s explanation of the Washington Declaration as de facto nuclear sharing?” We do not see this as ‘de facto nuclear sharing’.”
Previously, Kim Tae-hyo, first deputy director of the National Security Office, evaluated the Washington Declaration and said, “It will be felt that the Korean people are living while sharing nuclear weapons with the United States.”
However, in response to the follow-up question, “Is the position different from the Korean government?”, Kagan’s nominee said, “I want to refute that. “We had extensive discussions with our Korean colleagues,” he said.
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