President Lee: "Complete Denuclearization of North Korea is the Path for Peace in the Korean Peninsula, Asia, and the World"

【Financial News Tokyo (Japan) = Reporter Seo Young-jun】 President Lee Jae-myung said on the 24th, "The complete denuclearization of North Korea is the path to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, and furthermore, to peace in Northeast Asia, Asia, and the world."
President Lee held a meeting on the plane moving from Japan to the United States on this day and said, "It's a difficult path, but it's an obvious statement, so I naturally made it."
President Lee explained, "The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is a consistent position that the government of the Republic of Korea has maintained regardless of progressive or conservative stances," and "Naturally, at this stage, the basic solution of the Lee Jae-myung administration should be to move towards the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
Additionally, President Lee said, "However, is this an immediately achievable goal? Everyone acknowledges that it's unrealistic," and "So I thought it would be right to stop, reduce, and eventually denuclearize."
President Lee said, "In the end, there's no choice but to go that way. If you want to make a U-turn, you have to stop first," and "If you want to go back, you have to slow down, go in the opposite direction, and then you can return to the original starting point."
In particular, President Lee said, "In the official statement of Vice Director Kim Yo-jong, I saw that it would be difficult for me to become a great person, and I thought they might expect me to become one," and "I think there are undertones in people's words."
President Lee emphasized, "On the one hand, isn't it a difficult situation? It seems that North Korea was severely provoked to create a justification for martial law, and it must have been very difficult for North Korea to endure," and "However, I'm not saying that I'm siding with them or that I'm a pro-North Korean."
President Lee continued, "Whether it's Vice Director Kim Yo-jong or Chairman Kim Jong-un, they have their positions, so considering their positions, we should aim to minimize the threat of military conflict by communicating and dialoguing based on strong national defense and deterrence, securing peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula as much as possible, enjoying economic stability, reducing public anxiety, and reducing the risk of conflict, which aligns with the national interest of the Republic of Korea," and "Therefore, there's no need to be too caught up in some expressions. I think it's just a protruding part of the big flow."

syj@fnnews.com Reporter Seo Young-jun