Choi Sang-mok offered consolation to Xi Jinping, and Cho Tae-yeol offered consolation to Wang Yi.
“Mourning the victims.”
On the 8th, the government sent a condolence letter expressing deep condolences to China, which suffered great damage from the large-scale earthquake.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Acting President Choi Sang-mok, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance, delivered messages of consolation to Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yeol delivered messages of consolation to the Chinese government and people through a consolation speech to Chinese Communist Party Central Political Bureau member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, respectively. .
Acting President Choi and Minister Cho expressed their condolences to the victims of the earthquake before consolation and prayed that the Chinese government and people would work together to resolve the disaster as soon as possible.
Previously, on the morning of the 7th, a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 (7.1 based on Chinese observations and U.S. Geological Survey) occurred in the Xizang Tibetan Autonomous Region near the Nepal border in western China. Since then, about 640 aftershocks have continued.
As of midnight on the 8th, 126 people were killed and 188 were injured in this earthquake. The number of casualties is likely to increase further.
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