South Korea plans to focus efforts on broadening its diplomatic horizons this year by strengthening relations with other nations with “shared values” in overcoming “global complex crises,” Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday in report to President Yoon Suk Yeol on major policy tasks this year, Yonhap reported.
The drive is part of efforts to achieve the administration’s vision of making South Korea a “global pivotal state” through “preemptive and proactive” diplomacy amid lingering challenges, such as “strategic competition” between the United States and China, the Russia-Ukraine war and the coronavirus pandemic, the ministry said.
The government will also seek to resume North Korean denuclearisation talks with a “flexible and open stance” and strengthen co-operation with relevant countries for “principled and sustainable” negotiations, it added.
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