{"id":146715,"date":"2026-09-08T03:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/146715\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:03:17","slug":"president-lee-vows-to-pursue-peace-on-korean-peninsula-through-dialogue-based-on-firm-deterrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/146715\/","title":{"rendered":"President Lee vows to pursue peace on Korean Peninsula through dialogue based on firm deterrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/18b75b99-2293-4b2e-aa33-1103c23d4b24.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1368; width: 100%\" alt=\"President Lee Jae Myung delivers his speech during a session of the Lumiere Summit in the resort town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence in France, Monday (local time). Yonhap \" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>President Lee Jae Myung delivers his speech during a session of the Lumiere Summit in the resort town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence in France, Monday (local time). Yonhap <\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">President Lee Jae Myung vowed Tuesday to continue efforts to promote peaceful coexistence with North Korea and mutual prosperity on the Korean Peninsula through dialogue based on &#8220;firm deterrence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Lee made the remarks in a video message for the opening ceremony of the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD), stressing the need for stronger security cooperation amid unprecedented and complex challenges in the international security environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;We will unwaveringly continue efforts to achieve peaceful coexistence and shared prosperity on the Korean Peninsula through trust and dialogue based on firm deterrence,&#8221; Lee said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">He added that South Korea is working to broaden the horizon for dialogue on peace and prosperity through mutual respect and cooperation based on its independent defense capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Confrontations and armed conflicts between countries are continuing across the world while the global nuclear nonproliferation regime that has underpinned global peace for decades is also being seriously undermined,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Lee also noted that rapidly advancing technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), have become a source of new security threats that are unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">He called for a new model of security cooperation based on &#8220;strong deterrence, international norms and shared resilience,&#8221; saying such challenges cannot be addressed by a single country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Lee Jae Myung delivers his speech during a session of the Lumiere Summit in the resort town&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,146,33],"class_list":["post-146715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-korea","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}