A senior South Korean government official said Sunday that his country was actively considering a proposal by its northern neighbor to hold a working-level meeting to provide a vaccine against the coronavirus.
The official said South Korean President Yun Seok-yeol offered to send vaccines to the North after Pyongyang acknowledged that the virus first broke out in the country on Thursday.
He said the South Korean government was actively considering a proposal to formally propose earlier this week to hold a working-level meeting on providing vaccines in North Korea, and noted that the government had planned to achieve the status of its proposal for the North after consultations. to relevant institutions at an early date.
He said the government’s stance is that it should make a direct presentation to North Korea, in addition to announcing the plan to the South Korean press, regardless of the North’s reaction.
Related discussions within the southern government are expected to accelerate after Kwon Young-seh, who was appointed Minister of Unification on Friday, took office on Monday.
North Korea has claimed no coronavirus for more than two years, then reported the first case of the virus on Thursday, saying the country has declared a “severe emergency” anti-virus system in the area.
And yesterday, Saturday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said at a meeting of his country -led Labor Party’s Political Bureau that his country was facing intense turmoil due to the spread of the Corona virus.
Kim stressed that the Corona pandemic is not losing control because it is limited to some areas that are already closed.
Source: Yonhap
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