It’d be a great honor for the South Koreans

According to media reports, President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol will soon dispatch a delegation to the United States before the US Congress recess begins.

The reports added that Rep. Park Jin of the People Power Party was appointed to lead the delegation team and expected to meet high ranking officials in the US government and leaders of Congress.

Although, as a man of the people, I am unaware of the current issues that will be soon discussed between President-elect Yoon’s delegation and the US officials, I assume that both sides will perhaps mainly focus on strengthening ROK-US Alliance that has been, to some extent, on the wane for years since the liberal government took office in 2017.

The planned talks set in early April seem to bring every possible effort in resuming the alliance that was particularly forged on the battlefield standing shoulder and shoulder. It will be of primary importance under the present tense situation where North Korea steps up its saber-rattling even by launching a suspected ICBM Hwasung-17 that directly threatens not only the United States but also South Korea and Japan.

As reported, President-elect, Yoon Suk-yeol will be sworn in on May 10, 2022 as the 20^th President of the Republic of Korea.  Therefore, it is believed that many of foreign country heads and diplomats will be invited to the inaugural ceremony. On the occasion of the presidential inaugural ceremony, as a citizen of South Korea, I would earnestly request the US president Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida, if possible, to attend the inauguration.

If realized, it would be not only a great honor for the South Koreans but also the strongest signal to the NK regime that the blood-bonded ally, the United States and our immediate neighboring country, Japan stand firmly behind us. The solidarity will certainly deter the North Korean regime from threatening and blackmailing towards South Korea and the free world.