청와대 여야대표 만찬회동, '안보중심' 논의"
Staying at the top office,...
President Moon sat down with leaders of the country's rival political parties on Wednesday evening at the presidential office.
Given the heightened tensions on the peninsula,... security issues and ways to deal with an increasingly aggressive North Korea topped the agenda..
Hwang Hojun reports.
It was the third time President Moon and the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties have gotten together at the Blue House.
This time around, the main focus of the meeting was national security.
(KOREAN)
"As you are all aware of, our state of security is very serious. I'm worried that our national peace may be jeopardized and the safety of our people threatened due to external conditions that we cannot control."
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The leaders who attended the dinner meeting with the president were Choo Mi-ae of the ruling Democratic Party, Ahn Cheol-soo of the People's Party, acting leader and floor leader of the Bareun Party Joo Ho-young, and Lee Jeong-mi of the Justice Party.
However, the leader of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, Hong Joon-pyo, was a no-show, rejecting the Presidential Office's invitation to the gathering.
President Moon urged the political leaders for cooperation in dealing with North Korea's continuous provocations,... calling the current situation an urgent task to resolve in order to ensure the nation's peace and economic growth.
Since President Moon took office in May, his administration saw a number of provocations by Pyongyang -- eleven in total, including the regime's sixth nuclear test earlier this month.
And in the spirit of bipartisanship, President Moon renewed his proposal to form a permanent three-way consultation body,... that would include the government and the ruling and opposition parties, and which will aim at taking on those issues
(KOREAN)
"To make political cooperation a reality, which is what people want and what we have promised, I look forward to quickly forming the permanent consultation body in order to discuss security issues together within that frame."
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President Moon's remarks come as the conservative parties have lambasted Moon for sticking with the "dialogue with North Korea" narrative.
Also, the opposition and the presidential office already had some difficulties seeing eye to eye on President Moon's picks for high governmental positions.
(STAND UP)
Wednesday's meeting was initially proposed by President Moon soon after he came back home from New York, where he made his debut at the 72nd UN General Assembly. And since he got back, President Moon has continued to stress bipartisan effort and cooperation to put an end to North Korea's nuclear issues fundamentally and peacefully, … just like the international community is doing now.
Hwang Hojun Arirang News.
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