In a news conference to mark his first 30 days in office, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung says he is doing his best to achieve a mutually beneficial and sustainable outcome from trade negotiations with the U.S.
00:00South Korean President Lee Jae-myung says that he was doing his best to achieve a mutually beneficial and sustainable outcome from trade negotiations with the United States.
00:11He made the comments during a news conference to mark his first 30 days in office.
00:17Lee said that tariff negotiations with the U.S. had not been easy, and he could not say if an agreement was possible by a July 8 deadline set by Washington.
00:26During high-level trade talks last month, Washington raised issues related to South Korea's non-tariff barriers,
00:33as Seoul already imposes nearly zero tariffs on U.S. imports under a free trade agreement, a senior South Korean trade official has said.
00:41Lee also said the South should not stop talking to the North and should improve relations based on the South Korea-U.S. alliance.
00:48He also added that he had been surprised by the swift response by North Korea after he suspended loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts directed across the border,
00:58and said he would take additional steps to ease tensions.
01:01Under former President Yoon Suk-yeol, who had a hard line against Pyongyang,
01:05the two sides scrapped a 2018 military agreement that sharply escalated hostility.
01:10The two Koreas remained technically in a state of war under a truce that ended fighting in 1953.
01:18The three Koreas remained unearthed with the U.S. and the U.S. and the U.S. were on the ground against the sun.
01:24The two of its own happenings were on the ground against the U.S. but it was so qualifications and his own.
01:28The two who added the U.S. were on the ground against the U.S. was about the American war under a stopper of the U.S.
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