White House aide Sullivan said about the goals of the three-way summit, "There will be discussions on how to take the foreign currency that North Korea uses to finance its nuclear and missile programs." "Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit South Korea next month We will discuss sanctions with South Korean officials,” he said on the 29th.
Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said at a press conference on a plane dedicated to attending the NATO summit in Spain, "The United States needs to continue to find ways to cut off North Korea's revenue streams, and this issue will be on the agenda for substantive discussion between Secretary Yellen and South Korea's financial regulator. will,” he said.
When asked about the trilateral summit, he said, "The US has raised the level of sanctions against North Korea over the past 18 months, and the US has continued to search for new sanctions targets, especially as North Korea continues to adjust its ways of generating revenue." It was reported by Voice of America (VOA).
In a recent statement, the US Treasury Department announced that Secretary Yellen would visit South Korea on the 19th following a visit to Japan next month and attending the G20 finance ministers meeting in Bali, Indonesia.
At a briefing on the same day, Sullivan officially confirmed that Treasury Secretary Yellen's visit to South Korea would directly discuss sanctions against North Korea with officials from the South Korean financial regulator.
Regarding the NATO summit, NATO officials responded to President Yoon Seok-yeol's attendance on the 23rd and a question about cooperation in resolving the North Korean problem, saying, "The NATO allies fully support the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) of the Korean Peninsula." VOA reported that it was reconfirmed.
NATO previously specified “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” as a joint statement at the summit, distinguishing it from “the denuclearization of North Korea.”
A senior U.S. administration official said in a commentary on the NATO summit, including South Korea, Japan, Australia, and others, "[The war in Ukraine] united democracies against Russia and China, and President Biden effectively linked our efforts in Europe and Asia." ” and specified a 'democratic country'.
"The new NATO strategy concept covers both Russia and China, and the fact that Asian partners will attend this year's NATO summit shows that the US has effectively linked Europe and Asia," VOA reported.
At a local staff meeting in Madrid, President Yoon said, "Korea's Indo-Pacific strategy and peace and security initiative meet NATO's new strategic concept," and announced on the 28th that the US would support the Indo-Pacific strategy.
Kim Tae-hyo, first deputy chief of security, said in Madrid on the 28th, "I came here to declare that the Republic of Korea will take the lead in defending liberal democracy, human rights, and the rule of law."
Regarding the Korea-Australia summit, a briefing in the office of President Yoon announced on the 28th that “they reaffirmed their active cooperation in the denuclearization of North Korea,” using the phrase “North Korea denuclearization,” which is not used by the Australian Labor Party government.
As a presidential campaign promise, President Yoon announced “to eradicate unfair trade in the capital market,” and appointed Lee Bok-hyeon, an expert in slush fund investigation, to the head of the Financial Supervisory Service.