Seoul's top diplomat is in Vancouver for high-level international discussions on the situation
with North Korea.
But with China and Russia not invited to the talks,... questions over the meeting's credibility
are already being raised.
Kwon Jang-ho reports.
The inaugural Vancouver Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean
Peninsula will open on Tuesday.
Co-hosted by the U.S. and Canada, the meeting aims to boost the global effort to find a
peaceful resolution to the North Korea nuclear situation.
Those invited are being called the 'Vancouver Group', and will include most countries that
fought in the Korean war under the UN flag, such as the UK, France and Turkey, as well
as South Korea, and other interested parties, like India, Japan and Sweden.
However, notable absentees include China, Russia and North Korea.
It's unclear whether they were formally invited or not, but their absence has caused some
to question the effectiveness and purpose of the meeting.
Beijing has criticized it, saying that without all the major relevant parties involved, the
meeting won't help the situation on the Korean Peninsula, but only divide the international
community even further.
Despite an easing of tensions with the two Korea's now talking again, the main outcome
of the summit is expected to be an agreement to keep the pressure on Pyongyang, with the
next step being a focus on trying to stop ships carrying out illicit trade with the
regime at sea.
(Korean) "The key theme in this Vancouver meeting is
solidarity among like-minded countries,... among countries that say maximum pressure
on North Korea in the form of unilateral and multilateral economic sanctions must remain
a top priority.
Then China and Russia could jump onboard if they find that international solidarity is
the inevitable trend and if it serves their strategic interests to join in."
A trilateral meeting on the sidelines of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan has been talked
about, as has a separate South Korea-U.S. meeting, where the ongoing inter-Korean talks
would likely be the main point of discussion.
Then there's a potentially frosty meeting between the foreign ministers of Seoul and
Tokyo on the table as well.
South Korea-Japan relations have soured again in recent weeks... after the Moon administration
condemned the controversial 2015 Seoul-Tokyo agreement on the issue of Japan's wartime
sexual enslavement of Korean women.
It's not clear what progress could be made from this meeting, but it promises to be a
highly charged affair.
Kwon Jang-ho, Arirang News.
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