Yoon Seok-yeol ‘Value Alliance’ Japan ‘Rule of Law’ Canada ‘Energy Security’ Germany ‘Value Interest’
President Yoon Seok-yeol's office ordered 'universal values' to allied countries, shared Japan's 'international order of law' with Europe, Prime Minister of Canada made joint progress on 'energy security' and 'democracy' in Korea, and German Prime Minister ' Value profit' share, respectively.
Regarding the Korea-EU summit to be held on the 22nd, President Yoon’s office said, “The visit by the EU head of state is a meaningful year that marks the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, and the EU, an important cooperative partner that shares universal values, and the economy, health, science and technology It is expected to be an opportunity to strengthen substantive cooperation in the field and deepen cooperation on regional and global issues,” said Voice of America (VOA) on the 13th.
On the 12th, the Prime Minister's Office of Canada said about the 'Korea-Canada Summit Discussion' on the 12th, "In Korea, a close ally and ally of Canada in the North Pacific region, Prime Minister (Trudeau) met with Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol to discuss economy and energy security, followed by carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. We will advance common priorities, including energy security, net-zero emission economies, democracy, human rights, and gender equality,” he told VOA.
Japan's Foreign Minister Hayashi attended the Indo-Pacific Ministerial Conference co-hosted by the EU and Sweden on the 13th and said, "It is now important to uphold a free and open international order based on the rule of law. To realize a free and open Indo-Pacific, Japan and European partners deepen their ties. "Security in Europe and the Indo-Pacific cannot be discussed separately. It is important to maintain solidarity beyond regional borders in order to maintain a free and open international order based on the rule of law," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. released on the 15th.
Regarding economic security, Foreign Minister Hayashi said, "New challenges such as the vulnerability of the global supply chain (supply chain), theft of important technologies, forced transfer of intellectual property rights, and the pursuit of coercive national interests based on economic power are emerging." To strengthen deterrence and response to threats, Japan and the EU need to further expand cooperation with like-minded partners, including partners from emerging and developing countries. will lead the response of the international community together with the European and Indo-Pacific allies, which is today's meeting," said the 'Rule of Law Alliance'.
Regarding Chancellor Scholz’s visit to Korea after the G7 in Hiroshima on the 21st, the German Chancellor’s Office said on the 12th, “Korea is one of our important value partners in Asia and one of the countries that share important values and interests as a major G20 partner. ” he told VOA.
Regarding South Korea’s “value diplomacy,” he said, “From the beginning of his inauguration, the Yoon administration announced plans to expand diplomacy centered on US-Korea relations, and with the announcement of its first independent Indo-Pacific strategy in December of last year, it was clear that it was centered on universal values pursued by the United States and its allies.” “The 'value diplomacy' of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration has expanded beyond the United States and Japan to Europe, and President Yoon attended the NATO summit for the first time as a Korean leader in June of last year to build solidarity with the free camp. There are also evaluations that it has revealed a clearer position to China in the extension of these’value diplomacy’,” said VOA in its’one-year diplomacy evaluation’.
Regarding the Korea-Japan summit on the 8th, Presidential Office Spokesman Lee Do-woon said, "It can be evaluated that the value-oriented diplomacy under the Yoon Seok-yeol administration is now getting results." Announced three achievements, including 'the role of leverage'.
In a speech to the U.S. Congress (April 27), President Yoon said, “Korea is now a vibrant country where freedom and democracy live and breathe.” After World War II, the Republic of Korea dispatched 'freedom fighters' to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight alongside the United States,” he said.
President Yoon continued, “The Republic of Korea, along with the United States, will play the role of a ‘compass of freedom’ that protects and expands the freedoms of citizens around the world.” We must not neglect our duty to deliver the
At the conclusion of his speech, President Yoon referred to the “value alliance” as “the ROK-US alliance is a value alliance based on the universal values of freedom, human rights and democracy.”
US President Biden tweeted on the 30th of last month, right after President Yoon left the US, “The US-Korea alliance was born from sharing beliefs, not sharing borders. It is Democracy, liberty, security - above all freedom.”
America's 'freedom' is 'freedom as a right' and is used in democracy as freedom of expression, freedom of thought, and freedom of religion, and is an absolute right in Article 1 of the Amendment to the Constitution. It is different from 'freedom from authority', and it seems that President Biden sent 'freedom as a right' to President Yoon.
From his inaugural address, President Yoon excluded party and parliamentary democracy through liberal democracy and “rule of law,” which is “rule of law,” in his emphasis on freedom.
President Yoon's value alliance is a 'liberal value alliance' by liberty, and the US Democratic Party President Biden left a gap with the 'democratic alliance' at the US-Japan summit.