On Monday, Presidents Moon Jae-in and President Emmanuel Macron discussed progress on Seoul's drive to denuclearize North Korea.
President Moon called on France to do its part as an influential European power to encourage the regime to follow through on its decision to give up its weapons programs.
The French president said international sanctions should remain in place until the regime has fully and finally abandoned its nuclear program, but added his country is ready to provide a helping hand if the North backs up its words with action.
The joint declaration made by the two leaders on Monday also says South Korea and France's foreign ministers will hold annual high-level talks and defense ministers of two countries will also hold regular talks to discuss regional security and possible cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
President Moon will wrap up his stay in the French capital at a business forum aimed at shoring up economic ties between South Korea and France.
The two leaders decided to hold their next summit in Seoul after President Moon extended an invitation to President Macron.
Moving on, the first three-way meeting between South and North Korea and the UN Command has started at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjeom at around 10 am this morning.
The officials will be discussing the demilitarization of the Joint Security Area as agreed upon at last month's inter-Korean summit in Pyeongyang.
According to South Korea's defense ministry, the closed-door meeting is being attended by nine officials, three officials each from South and North Korea and the UN Command.
Today, South Korea has declared an end to the country's first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in three years.
According to the KCDC, the announcement was in line with guidelines set by the WHO, which requires that no new infections be reported for a minimum of 28 days, which is twice the length of the virus' incubation period.
This comes as one person was diagnosed with MERS in September after returning from a three-week business trip to Kuwait, becoming the first confirmed case of MERS in the nation since 2015, an outbreak which resulted in 38 deaths.
South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang says. the legislative bodies of the two Koreas should push for inter-Korean parliamentary talks.
Moon made the remarks during talks with Ri Jong-hyok, the deputy head of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, on the sidelines of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva on Monday and it was the first time representatives of the two Koreas have met at the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Source: Arirang News
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