South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo met with a U.S. lawmaker and policy experts in Washington to discuss the bilateral alliance and the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo met U.S. Representative Young Kim, chair of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, and Hudson Institute president John Walters during his four-day visit to Washington that began Monday.
Park stressed the faithful and swift implementation of the joint fact sheet issued in November after last year's summit between President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump. He also highlighted progress on the two countries' agreement for $350 billion in South Korean investments in the United States.
Park called for U.S. congressional support on security issues including the peaceful use of nuclear energy, nuclear-powered submarines, and shipbuilding. During talks with U.S. Under Secretary of State Allison Hooker, the two sides announced that Hooker will lead an interagency delegation to Seoul in the coming weeks to launch working groups on the fact sheet.
