{"id":85304,"date":"2026-07-14T04:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/85304\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:50:13","slug":"president-lee-vows-lasting-peace-on-korean-peninsula-path-to-shared-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/85304\/","title":{"rendered":"President Lee Vows Lasting Peace on Korean Peninsula, Path to Shared Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"President Lee Jae-myung speaks at the 30th Cabinet meeting held at the Blue House on the 14th. 2026.07.14 Blue House Press Corps - Seoul Economic Daily Politics News from South Korea\" title=\"President Lee Vows Lasting Peace on Korean Peninsula, Path to Shared Prosperity\" 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\/07\/news-p.v1.20260714.8eef9e176c8b4dbf955e3a07533accb1_P1.jpg\"\/>President Lee Jae-myung speaks at the 30th Cabinet meeting held at the Blue House on the 14th. 2026.07.14 Blue House Press Corps<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">President Lee Jae-myung emphasized on the 14th that he would &#8220;establish lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula and walk without wavering on the path where South and North prosper together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">President Lee made the remarks in a written congratulatory address, read on his behalf by Lim Woong-soon, second deputy director of the National Security Office, at the North Korean Defectors&#8217; Day event held at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, that day. &#8220;I will do my utmost to open a future of coexistence and cooperation, beyond conflict and confrontation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Addressing the North Korean defectors, President Lee said, &#8220;I believe that starting life anew while adapting to an unfamiliar society was surely never easy.&#8221; He added, &#8220;The government will look after you even more closely so that you, as proud citizens of the Republic of Korea, do not bear the weight of life alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">He continued, &#8220;The lives of you North Korean defectors are conveying hope and inspiration to our society.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I firmly believe that the experience of understanding and trusting one another within a new community will become the foundation for social integration and, someday, a precious asset in preparing for a future where South and North live together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Lee Jae-myung speaks at the 30th Cabinet meeting held at the Blue House on the 14th. 2026.07.14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[982,31,14223,146,35300,45420,18739,33,1450],"class_list":["post-85304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-inter-korean-relations","tag-korea","tag-korean-peninsula-peace","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-north-korean-defectors","tag-north-korean-defectors-day","tag-social-integration","tag-south-korea","tag-south-korea-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85304","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=85304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}