President Yoon Suk Yeol gives an address at a ceremony marking the 104th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement at the Memorial Hall of Yu Gwan-sun in central Seoul Wednesday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS] The United States strongly supports President Yoon Suk Yeol’s vision for a cooperative partnership between South Korea and Japan, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday, and “applauds” efforts by the two countries to improve relations. “We very much support this vision, and we further believe U.S.-ROK-Japan trilateral cooperation is critical to addressing the challenges that our three countries collectively are confronting in the 21st century,” U.S. State Department Press Secretary Ned Price said in a briefing in Washington when asked about Yoon’s recent overtures to Japan. ROK stands for South Korea’s official name, the Republic of Korea. In his March 1 Independence Movement address on Wednesday, Yoon said Japan has “transformed from a militaristic aggressor of the past into a partner that shares the same universal values with us.” He also stressed the importance of a trilateral cooperation between South Korea, the United States and Japan to overcome North Korea’s nuclear threats and other global issues. In a departure from most of his predecessor’s addresses marking the… Read full this story
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