Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has arrived in Seoul, the first stop on a trip aimed at strengthening the alliance’s ties with U.S. allies in South Korea and Japan in the face of the war in Ukraine and rising competition with China. | Reuters
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attends an TV interview in a hall at Davos Congress Centre, the venue of the World Economic Forum 2023, in the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2023. REUTERS FILE PHOTO
SEOUL — Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrived in Seoul on Sunday, the first stop on a trip aimed at strengthening the alliance’s ties with U.S. allies in South Korea and Japan in the face of the war in Ukraine and rising competition with China. In Seoul, Stoltenberg is due to meet with Foreign Minister Park Jin, Minister of National Defense Lee Jong-Sup, and other senior officials, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said in a statement. He will also likely meet with President Yoon Suk-yeol, the presidential office has said.Flying to Tokyo on Monday, the secretary general has meetings scheduled with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other Japanese officials.
“I strongly believe that we need to strengthen the partnership between Korea and Nato because security becomes more and more interconnected,” Stoltenberg told Yonhap News agency in an interview published on Sunday. “What happens in Asia, the Indo-Pacific, matters for Europe and Nato, and vice versa.”
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