If that visit occurs, Pelosi would be the highest-level American to go to the Joint Security Area since then-President Donald Trump went there in 2019 for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Command and North Korea, a South Korean official said requesting anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to media on the matter. Later in the day, Pelosi planned to visit an inter-Korean border area that is jointly controlled by the American-led U.N. He said the two agreed to support their governments’ push to establish denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula based on both strong deterrence against North Korea and diplomacy. Kim said he and Pelosi shared concerns about North Korea’s increasing nuclear threats. Neither Pelosi nor Kim took questions from journalists. “We want to advance security, economy and governance in the inter-parliamentary way.” “We also come to say to you that a friendship, a relationship that began from urgency and security, many years ago, has become the warmest of friendships,” Pelosi said in a joint news conference with Kim. After that hour-long meeting, Pelosi spoke about the bilateral alliance, forged in blood during the 1950-53 Korean War, and legislative efforts to support a push to boost ties but didn’t directly mention her Taiwan visit or the Chinese protests. She met South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin Pyo and other senior members of Parliament on Thursday. ally where about 28,500 American troops are deployed - on Wednesday evening, as part of an Asian tour that included stops in Singapore and Malaysia. Pelosi, the first incumbent House speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years, said Wednesday in Taipei that the American commitment to democracy on the self-governing island and elsewhere “remains ironclad.” In response, China announced it would launch its largest military maneuvers aimed at Taiwan in more than a quarter of a century.Īfter visiting Taiwan, Pelosi and other members of Congress flew to South Korea - a key U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met South Korean political leaders in Seoul on Thursday but avoided making direct public comments on cross-Strait relations that could have further increased regional tensions. SEOUL, South Korea > After infuriating China over her trip to Taiwan, U.S.

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