Korea-Japan Summit (September 2018)
President Moon Jae-in, on a visit to New York to attend the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, held a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in New York on Sept. 25 to discuss ways to develop the relationship between Seoul and Tokyo.
President Moon outlined the results of the inter-Korean summit held in Pyeongyang. He emphasized the importance of dialogue between North Korea and Japan, and the improvement of their relationship, in order to bring forward the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and so as to usher in a new era of peace and prosperity.
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Korea-U.S. Summit (September 2018)
President Moon Jae-in, on a visit to New York to attend the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, held bilateral summits with the U.S. leader to discuss denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.
President Moon first met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 24 at the Lotte New York Palace hotel. They discussed the 2018 Inter-Korean Summit Pyeongyang and talked about ways Korea and the U.S. could cooperate on settling a permanent peace in the region.
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Korea-Indonesia Summit (September 2018)
President Moon Jae-in and Indonesian President Joko Widodo held a summit at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 10. The two leaders discussed ways to strengthen the special strategic partnership that exists between the two countries.
Korea-Singapore Summit (July 2018)
President Moon Jae-in held a summit meeting with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana presidential palace on July 12. During the meeting, the two leaders agreed to further strengthen their countries' relationship by expanding cooperation on several areas, including trade and investment in human resources.
Following the summit, the two heads of state announced the results of their meeting in a joint press conference.
"Together we discussed ways to implement specific measures that would upgrade our countries' ties into a future-oriented relationship. One such measure is to increase exchanges of people, from the level of government all the way down to the civilian level," said President Moon.
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Korea-India Summit(July 2018)
President Moon Jae-in held a summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at India’s state guesthouse on July 10. The two leaders agreed to further strengthen the “special strategic partnership” that exists between the two countries.
Following the summit, the two leaders issued a joint press statement and declared the formal adoption of “A Vision for People, Prosperity, Peace and our Future,” which reaffirms the crucial partnership between Seoul and New Delhi. They also officially announced a shared vision that aims to boost bilateral trade between them to USD 50 billion by 2030.
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Korea-Russia Summit (June 2018)
President Moon Jae-in, currently on a state visit to Russia, held talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on June 22. The two rounds of talks, the first being smaller in scale and the second one being expanded, produced a joint statement with a total of 32 concrete clauses, in which a lot of mutual cooperation was focused on “co-prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and Eurasia.”
President Moon said in a subsequent press conference that, “President Putin and I have agreed to increase our dialogue and cooperation for the goal of making it happen for the peninsula and the Eurasian region as a whole, to enjoy peace and prosperity."
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Korea-Philippines Summit (June 2018)
President Moon Jae-in hosted a summit with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, on an official visit to Korea for three days, on June 4 and reaffirmed the Philippine government’s agreement to expand bilateral exchanges and to cooperate on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
At the second summit between Korea and the Philippines, after the first in Manila in November last year, the two leaders highly appreciated what the two countries have witnessed over the past seven decades since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1949. The two countries have some 2 million tourists coming and going, and the total volume of trade last year topped USD 14.3 billion.
Korea-U.S. Summit (May 2018)
President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump on May 22 held a one-on-one meeting and then an expanded summit at the White House to reaffirm Seoul-Washington cooperation on dealing with issues concerning North Korea.
The two leaders also shared their thoughts that the leaders of South, North Korea and the U.S. would jointly declare an end to the war on the peninsula, as the leaders of the two Koreas did in the April 27 Panmunjeom Declaration following the U.S.-North Korea summit.
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Korea-Slovakia Summit (April 2018)
President Moon Jae-in held a summit on April 10 with his Slovak counterpart, President Andrej Kiska, currently on an official visit to Korea. The two leaders discussed ways to further develop bilateral cooperation across a range of industries.
President Moon spoke highly of the amount of Korea-Slovakia trade, which has increased more than 160 times over the past 25 years, saying that, “The trade structure between the two countries will hopefully be improved in a mutually beneficial manner by means of diversifying the range of our traded items.”
Korea-UAE Summit (March 2018)
President Moon Jae-in, currently on a visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), met with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on March 25. During the summit, the two leaders agreed to upgrade the Korea-UAE strategic relationship into a “special strategic partnership.”
The president and the crown prince acknowledged that the two countries have been engaged actively as strategic partners since 2009 across various areas of both the economy and industry, ever since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1980. The two leaders agreed that bilateral cooperation should be expanded into such areas as diplomacy, defense, education, medicine and energy, too.
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