EU Excessive Consultant for Overseas Affairs and Safety Coverage Josep Borrell attends a gathering with Japan’s Defence Minister Gen Nakatani (not pictured) on the Defence Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 1. (AFP)
European Union overseas coverage chief Josep Borrell stated Sunday he’ll focus on methods to advance the EU’s safety and protection cooperation with South Korea throughout his go to to Seoul.
Borrell, the EU’s excessive consultant for overseas affairs and safety coverage, wrote on social media platform X that he arrived in Seoul to co-chair the primary Strategic Dialogue with Overseas Minister Cho Tae-yul.
“Over the previous years, now we have turn into even nearer companions making vital progress with the Digital, Inexperienced & Well being Partnerships,” Borrell wrote, noting his go to is aimed toward taking the safety and protection cooperation “to the subsequent degree.”
Discussions are prone to deal with shared considerations over North Korea’s dispatch of troops to Russia in assist of its battle in Ukraine and their joint responses.
Later within the day, he wrote a separate message on X that he had paid a go to to the Demilitarized Zone separating the 2 Koreas.
“My go to right this moment of the Demilitarised Zone — DMZ — between the Republic of Korea and the DPRK is one more reminder of the necessity to make investments extra in peace,” Borrell wrote, referring to South and North Korea, respectively, by their formal names.
Final week, Borrell strongly condemned North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia, calling his upcoming go to to Seoul a “well timed and essential alternative to debate these worrying developments.”
Throughout his go to, Borrell may also maintain talks with Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun, in keeping with the European Exterior Motion Service. (Yonhap)
