Individuals Energy Occasion Chair Han Dong-hoon speaks throughout an emergency intra-party assembly on overseas affairs and safety issues on the Nationwide Meeting in Seoul on Wednesday. (Yonhap)
South Korea’s ruling Individuals Energy Occasion on Wednesday expressed hope that US President Donald Trump’s second time period would function a chance to forge a “deeper” alliance between Seoul and Washington.
“We anticipate the South Korea-US alliance, solid by blood (because the 1950-53 Korean Warfare) will turn out to be deeper,” the ruling celebration right here stated in a commentary launched by way of senior spokesperson Rep. Kwak Kyu-taek.
“We sincerely congratulate Republican candidate Donald Trump’s win (within the 2024 US election) during which he was elected because the forty seventh president of the USA. We plan to forge a brand new path for the longer term based mostly on a stronger South Korea-US alliance,” the commentary learn.
The celebration identified the prevailing “critical” safety threats in Northeast Asia, escalated by the deepening army ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, mirrored in North Korea’s latest determination to ship troops to Russia.
“The safety scenario within the Northeast Asia area is extra critical than ever attributable to dangers together with the newest indicators of deepening ties between North Korea and Russia. (Which is why) we should completely counter army threats from the North based mostly on one of the best type of the Seoul-Washington alliance.”
On the financial ties between the US and South Korea, the ruling celebration pledged to spice up bilateral cooperation to attain the objective of “mutual profit” in areas equivalent to high-tech sectors, which incorporates semiconductors and aerospace.
“As each nations have shared the techniques of liberal democracy and market economic system, in addition to having constructed an necessary financial partnership by long-standing commerce ties, we are going to collectively make efforts to attain the objective of mutual profit in new areas equivalent to high-tech sectors,” the commentary stated. “We hope {that a} stronger financial cooperation between the 2 nations will contribute to the peace and prosperity within the Asia-Pacific area.”
It added that the Yoon Suk Yeol administration is ready to intently talk with the Trump administration to “deepen the cooperation” between Seoul and Washington.
“The Yoon administration seeks to deepen the cooperation by intently speaking with the Trump administration each time (mandatory). We plan to swiftly organize a chance for President Yoon and US President Trump to speak, for this function.”
