Yoon Seok-yeol's regime's secret diplomacy broke down in foreign affairs talks between Korea, China and Japan, forcing expo's 'secret contact'
As Yoon Seok-yeol's regime aggressively pursued strategy-led secret contact ticket diplomacy in the bid to host the Paris Expo, China's Foreign Minister avoided the banquet and joint press conference held by the foreign ministers of Korea, China and Japan on the 26th in Busan and immediately returned to Korea.
Regarding Korea's Expo voting strategy in Paris on the 24th, KBS said, "Recently, Saudi Arabia requested member countries that expressed support to 'send home'," and "It was not the member country's ambassador to France, but minister- and vice-minister-level officials sent directly from the home country to vote. “This is a surprise action after it became known that our government had recently contacted local ambassadors of member countries.”
The banquet of the foreign ministers of the three countries, prepared by Korea, the chair country of the Korea-China-Japan Foreign Ministers' Meeting, on the 26th in Busan was canceled due to Wang Yi's cancellation, and Wang Yi did not participate in the joint press conference, so it was postponed.
In an interview with an official, Yomiuri said on the 26th, “It was canceled due to Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s circumstances. Minister Wang Yi returned to Korea immediately after the meeting, and the joint press conference was also postponed at the last minute due to China’s request to cancel it.”A press release from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Wang told Foreign Minister Park Jin, "The two sides must jointly resist the tendency to politicize economic issues, instrumentalize science and technology issues, and broadly securitize trade issues." “We have become collaborative partners with integrated interests and highly interconnected production and supply chains,” he said.
Minister Kamikawa told Minister Park that he found the Korean court's order to compensate women forced to work in wartime brothels in Japan "very regrettable" and asked the Korean government to take appropriate action, Kyoto News reported.
Minister Park Jin held separate meetings with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi this morning and prepared a private three-way dinner.
Yomiuri announced on the 26th that the meeting between the Korean and Japanese foreign ministers was the first in four years since 2019, and that the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs was not able to make an official announcement until the 24th.
A Japanese diplomatic source told Yomiuri, “Japan and South Korea did not inform Director Wang of their attendance until the middle of this month.”
Director Wang Yi, who arrived in Busan on the 25th, met with French Foreign Minister Catherine Corona in Beijing the day before, on the 24th.
President Yoon Seok-yeol waged a battle to host the Expo in Paris until the 24th, and Yomiuri said, “There is a possibility that Japan will convey its support again at the meeting of the foreign ministers of Korea, China and Japan to be held in Busan on this day,” and the foreign ministers of Korea, China and Japan expressed their support for the Busan Expo in terms of the possibility of a successful bid.
KBS said on the 24th, “However, Saudi Arabia recently requested the member countries that expressed support to ‘send home’,” adding, “It is not a member country’s ambassador to France, but a minister or vice minister-level official sent directly from the home country to vote. “This is a surprise measure following the news that our government recently contacted local ambassadors of member countries,” the report said.
KBS went on to say, “As the vote is held through a ‘secret vote,’ the intention is to prevent local ambassadors in contact with Korea from voting differently from the will of their home country, which has expressed support for Saudi Arabia. In fact, the number of member countries sending their votes to their home country is on the rise.” Reported..
Korean media reported on the 25th, “Recently, it was reported that Saudi Arabia requested countries that support it to send minister- and vice-minister-level officials to Paris as voters. It was reported on the 25th, “This is a measure to crack down on defecting votes to Korea after it was reported that Korea had contacted the local ambassador to France.”
Korea's winning strategy was to secure first place in the second round of voting by falling short of Saudi Arabia's 2/3 in the first round of voting, but with a high number of Rome-supported votes, Korean media outlets reported simultaneously, and special reports such as KBS reported that Korean diplomacy was 'in Paris'. It shows a typical example of a secret diplomacy buying strategy that induces a 'home-directed rebellion' by competing for votes with local diplomats.
During his visit to the UK, President Yoon said in an interview with 'Telegraph' on the 24th, "The Intai region faces various geopolitical risk factors, including North Korea's nuclear threat and tensions in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea," and added, "Our government is committed to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait." , and has been emphasizing the importance of establishing a rules-based maritime order in the region, including the South China Sea. Korea is pursuing very close security cooperation with its allies, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, and is a key 'normative partner in the region, including Australia, Canada, and Japan. “We will also strengthen strategic cooperation with others,” he said.
The government's Busan bid committee used a management strategy to separate the BIE member countries into five groups, including 'sure support for Korea', 'prospect of support for Korea', 'neutrality or support for Italy', 'prospect of support for Saudi Arabia', and 'sure support for Saudi Arabia'. The media all reported on the strategy of "concentrating diplomatic power until the last minute to protect the 'domestic rabbits' who support it and catch the 'hares' who are neutral or support Saudi Arabia."
Last August, the government established a public-private joint task force of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and some media reported that the entire staff of the Office of the Secretary for Future Policy, including Future Strategy Planning Director Jang Seong-min of the President's Office, worked in Paris.
Regarding the vote-getting strategy, Presidential Future Strategy Planning Director Jang Seong-min said, “What the world is curious about is the secret to Korea’s unique rapid economic growth,” and added, “We will share this experience, which is equivalent to how to catch fish, with the international community.” He added, “Cold War system security umbrella conglomerate. He told the Dong-A Ilbo on October 9 that the 'led, bureaucratic, and command economy' was the focus of the expo.
Immediately after the summit with President Yoon, British Prime Minister Sunak said of Korea, "The cultural, economic and security ties our two countries share are stronger than ever. Let's build more of these over the next few years," he said on X (Twitter). He stated that ‘cultural ties come first’.
Externally, the ‘Busan World Expo Hosting Support Team’ under the Prime Minister’s Office is located at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, government finances are used, and the President visits Paris for two summit meetings to support the bid, advocating a foreign policy.
Yonhap News said, “According to the government, from July of last year, when the Busan Expo hosting activities began in earnest, to the present, President Yoon has met with 462 people from 96 countries, and Prime Minister Han has met with 203 people from 112 countries.” “The Prime Minister visited 12 and 25 countries in person, and the companies participating in the bid met with 2,807 people from 174 countries, and the total number of people met by the government and the private sector was 3,472,” it was reported on the 26th.
The union reported on this day, “Korea has been using a strategy of first defeating Rome in the first round of voting among 182 member countries and then holding a runoff election with Saudi Arabia to absorb the votes of European countries.”
If you go against the foreign policy of the other country and bribe diplomats of the other country to vote against the country's policy, you will be expelled from the host country for espionage.