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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:39:15 -1000
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From: Vincent K Pollard <pollard@HAWAII.EDU>
Subject: RP-DPRK relations, ROK view of, favorable <fwd>
To: SEASIA-L@LIST.MSU.EDU
The Korea Times (Lee Chang-sup, KIM
BACKS MANILA'S MOVE TO ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH NK,
Manila,
11/29/99) reported that ROK President Kim Dae-jung said on November 27
that he supports the Philippine move to normalize and eventually set
up diplomatic relations with the DPRK.
At a summit with Philippine President Joseph Estrada at the
Presidential Office Malacanang, the two leaders agreed that the ROK
and Philippines would have prior consultations with each other ahead
of the latter's establishment of diplomatic relations with the
DPRK.
According to Chong Wa Dae spokesman Park Joon-young, the ROK thinks
it is desirable for any country to improve ties with the DPRK and for
it to ameliorate its relations with international society. President
Kim hoped that the Philippines would convey to the DPRK ROK's true
intention to ease tension and prevent war on the Korean peninsula so
that both ROK and the DPRK would live together peacefully.
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