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Pres. Park to meet party leaders to urge cooperation on N.K. nuclear issue

Pres. Park to meet party leaders to urge cooperation on N.K. nuclear issue

Posted September. 12, 2016 06:51,   

Updated September. 12, 2016 07:10

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President Park will hold a meeting with ruling and opposition leaders at 2 p.m. on Monday, presidential spokesman said on Sunday. The meeting between the president and the party leaders comes in 11 months since the last one on Oct. 22, 2015 and the first since the 20th National Assembly took office.

The purpose of the meeting is expected to collect political opinions to gather public views on the national defense as soon as North Korea pushed ahead its fifth nuclear test on Friday. “President Park already had plans to meet the three representatives, but the schedule was put forward in advance due to the North Korean nuclear test,” the presidential office said. “The president will request for bipartisan cooperation on the matter.” In May, President Park also agreed to hold quarterly meetings with the ruling and opposition leaderships.

President Park is likely to explain the outcomes of summits with the U.S., Chinese, Japanese, and Russian leaders, and ask for cooperation on the deployment of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD).

“Cooperation from the public and the politicians are ultimately required, and move away from political offense with no alternatives such as the endless opposition to the deployment of THAAD," President Park said during the defense review on Friday.



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