2024-04-25 06:17:27
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell announced on the 24th (local time) that President Yoon Seok-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida deserve the Nobel Peace Prize in relation to the improvement in Korea-Japan relations.
Deputy Minister Campbell attended a conversation at the Hudson Institute, a Washington DC think tank, on this day, and when President Joe Biden invited President Yoon and Prime Minister Kishida to hold a Korea-US-Japan summit at Camp David in August last year, he said, “The two leaders of Korea and Japan are facing very difficult historical issues.” “The determination to overcome was amazing,” he said.
“I don’t think political courage is a small part of it,” Campbell said. “The Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t focus much on the Indo-Pacific, so if you ask me who has truly made a huge difference on the international stage and deserves this award?” “If anything, I would say that the two leaders should become joint prime ministers,” he said.
Deputy Minister Campbell pointed out that negative public opinion is being created on Korea-Japan relations due to the opposition party’s landslide victory in the recent general election in Korea, saying, “Many public opinion polls in Korea suggest that there is more support for this reconciliation (restoration of Korea-Japan relations).” He said.
He said that the United States has not been involved in Korea-Japan relations so far because it could be perceived as taking sides, but “as a result of the Camp David Summit, we have positioned the United States in the context of the tripartite relationship and have our role and voice (in Korea-Japan relations).” “I made it clear that it exists,” he said.
“Since then, we have been more prepared to quietly engage when we think something might happen that would undermine that progress or that one country or another would ask for a reconsideration,” he said.
He predicted, “If Korea, the United States, and Japan successfully continue to improve relations at this pace, it will have the most profound effect on U.S. regional relations.”
The Yongsan Presidential Office also introduced Deputy Minister Campbell’s remarks through a media notice.
The President’s Office reported that Deputy Secretary Campbell said, “It is not easy to build a habit of cooperation,” but added, “I believe that Korea and Japan, their leaders, and even the Korean opposition party will take the necessary measures to ensure that Korea-U.S.-Japan cooperation can continue.”
He said, “Cooperation between the three countries is not an immature effort,” and “It has already grown to a substantial level and has become a bridgehead that needs to continue to be strengthened.”
Meanwhile, Deputy Secretary Campbell cited China’s build-up of nuclear power and North Korea’s increasingly provocative activities and actions as factors of anxiety related to nuclear threats in the Indo-Pacific region.
He said, “We thought that some of the activities North Korea was taking in the past were for the purpose of negotiating dialogue with the United States or other countries,” and added, “But what is clear is that North Korea is determined to build and elaborate greater capabilities in various fields.” revealed.
“We have seen increasingly provocative actions by North Korea,” he said, adding, “It is worrisome for Northeast Asia and other regions.”
(Washington·Seoul=News1)
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2024-04-25 06:17:27