{"id":60725,"date":"2026-06-22T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/60725\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:41:27","slug":"lees-europe-trip-clearly-showcased-koreas-presence-says-chung-chung-rae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/60725\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee&#8217;s Europe Trip Clearly Showcased Korea&#8217;s Presence, Says Chung Chung-rae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Lee Jae-myung \u2014 Democratic Party leader Jung Chung-rae speaks on current issues at a Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly on the 22nd. Reporter Oh Seung-hyun - Seoul Economic Daily Politics News from South Korea\" title=\"Lee's Europe Trip Clearly Showcased Korea's Presence, Says Chung Chung-rae\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/news-p.v1.20260622.8eb2d75465aa461d81e942aad282464b_P1.jpg\"\/>Lee Jae-myung \u2014 Democratic Party leader Jung Chung-rae speaks on current issues at a Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly on the 22nd. Reporter Oh Seung-hyun<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Democratic Party leader Chung Chung-rae praised the results of President Lee Jae-myung&#8217;s trip to Europe, once again lauding the president. Chung, who is seeking re-election as party leader, has faced pressure from the pro-Lee faction not to run, but he has maintained a &#8220;low-key&#8221; stance to defuse tensions between the party and the presidential office, calling the president a &#8220;world-class leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Chung held a Supreme Council meeting at the National Assembly on Monday and said, &#8220;There was a briefing on the president&#8217;s trip to Europe.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Seeing him answer each pending issue without hesitation, I felt the president&#8217;s will to communicate with the public and run state affairs responsibly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Chung also said, &#8220;This trip to Europe served as an occasion to confirm Korea&#8217;s standing and the international community&#8217;s trust, including being invited to the G7 for the second consecutive year.&#8221; He assessed that &#8220;Korea clearly demonstrated its presence on global issues such as the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain, energy, and security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Chung cited the Pope&#8217;s request to visit North Korea during Lee&#8217;s trip to Europe as a major achievement. He said, &#8220;The president made painstaking efforts toward peace on the Korean Peninsula.&#8221; He added, &#8220;The president emphasized the Pope&#8217;s request to visit North Korea and his call for peace on the Korean Peninsula, and if realized, it would help improve the stalled inter-Korean relations.&#8221; He then expressed hope, saying, &#8220;If diplomatic ties between North Korea and the United States are also established, various barriers of division and separation will be removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Chung said, &#8220;I am grateful for the hard work of government officials who ran tirelessly.&#8221; He stressed, &#8220;The Democratic Party will support the president&#8217;s diplomacy so that it leads to peace, prosperity, and a better life for Korea, and we will become a responsible ruling party so that diplomatic fruits translate into achievements for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Jae-myung \u2014 Democratic Party leader Jung Chung-rae speaks on current issues at a Supreme Council meeting held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19093,156,34140,34141,982,31,31133,146,34142,33],"class_list":["post-60725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-chung-chung-rae","tag-democratic-party","tag-europe-trip","tag-g7-invitation","tag-inter-korean-relations","tag-korea","tag-korea-diplomacy","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-pope-north-korea-visit","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60725","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=60725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}