Vice Unification Minister Kim Soo-kyung is seen on this Sept. 23 photograph. Yonhap
By Kwak Yeon-soo
South Korea’s Vice Unification Minister, Kim Soo-kyung, will go to Germany this week to attend the Day of German Unity celebrations and talk about the nation’s unification expertise with senior German officers.
Hosted by the northern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Day of German Unity occasion shall be held on Thursday within the metropolis of Schwerin. The Day of German Unity, which is widely known yearly on Oct. 3, commemorates German reunification, the day when the previous German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formally joined the Federal Republic of Germany.
Throughout her five-day go to, Kim will meet with Manuela Schwesig, minister president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Carsten Schneider, minister of state for East Germany and Equal Residing Situations, to debate Berlin’s unification expertise and the opportunity of a unified Korea.
Kim may also meet with Joachim Gauck, former president of Germany, and State Secretary Dörte Dinger from the Workplace of the Federal President, to share President Yoon Suk Yeol’s 8.15 Unification Doctrine and search Berlin’s cooperation and assist for Seoul’s dedication to attaining a peaceable unification of the 2 Koreas based mostly on liberal democracy.
“By Kim’s go to, we hope to strengthen cooperation between South Korea and Germany relating to unification and North Korean insurance policies and construct consensus on a unified Korea based mostly on freedom, peace and prosperity,” the unification ministry stated.
The 2 nations established the unification advisory committee in 2011 to share Germany’s unification expertise and have performed annual conferences ever since.
Kim will give a particular lecture on the Free College of Berlin and ship a keynote speech on the “Frankfurt Korea Symposium 2024: Human Rights in North Korea” occasion hosted by the Northern Europe Municipal Chapter of the Peaceable Unification Advisory Council.
