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The Ministry of Unification expressed its position that it intends to find a way to improve inter-Korean relations even if the Tokyo Olympics in Japan in July are held without accommodating foreign spectators.
Unification Ministry spokesman Lee Jong-ju answered a question about the Tokyo Olympics at a regular briefing on the 22nd, “A variety of opportunities can be used to promote the peace process on the Korean Peninsula, and the Tokyo Olympics can be one of them.”
Spokesman Lee said, “The government continues to express its position that it will continue to promote the peace process on the Korean Peninsula,” and said, “We will continue to look for ways that will trigger the progress of the peace process on the Korean Peninsula in accordance with the given conditions and circumstances.”
The Korean government has been promoting measures to improve inter-Korean relations and US-North Korea relations, etc., which have been struck by the Tokyo Olympics. In this regard, President Moon Jae-in said, “(Tokyo Olympics) could be an opportunity for dialogue between Korea and Japan, North Korea, North Korea and North Korea,” in a commemorative address on the March 1st of the 102nd anniversary.
However, the Japanese government decided to hold the Tokyo Olympics for the first time in history as an Olympics that does not receive spectators from overseas, considering that it is impossible to control the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) as it is. The same goes for the Tokyo Paralympic Games that follow.
In addition, spokesman Lee said in a question about the US State Department’s ‘2020 Korean Human Rights Report’ that the South Korean government is restricting the activities of North Korean-related non-governmental organizations (NGOs), “The report has not yet been officially released. “I did not,” he said, “it is a little early to comment before the announcement,” he avoided.
In this’Korean Human Rights Report’, the US State Department heard the fact that in July last year, the Korean government canceled the permission to establish the North Korean defector groups’Freedom North Korean Movement’ and’Keun Saem’. Oppression” he pointed out.