1. At 10:00-11:00, October 19, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun met with Jane Harman, Director, President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an influential think tank in the United States. In the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the Republic of Korea-United States relations, and cooperation with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

※ Director Harman was on a visit to the ROK for a meeting among experts of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Asan Institute for Policy Studies held on October 17.

2. Vice Minister Cho explained the recent developments in the situation on the Korean Peninsula, including the 2018 Inter-Korean Summit Pyeongyang, the ROK-US summit talks in New York, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the US-DPRK agreement to hold their second summit; and stressed that it was important to continue diplomatic efforts on the basis of close ROK-US coordination in order to move forward work to enhance the inter-Korean relations and achieve complete denuclearization in a virtuous circle.

° Director Harman emphasized that it was important for various sectors of the ROK and the US to coordinate and cooperate closely in the course toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. She added that the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on its part, will play whatever role it can to contribute to complete denuclearization and the establishment of peace on the Korean Peninsula.

3. Vice Minister Cho extended appreciation to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a leading think tank in the US, for playing an active role in academic exchanges between the two countries and, in particular, helping the US better understand the ROK through its Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy.

° Director Harman, taking note of the close cooperative ties between the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the ROK, noted that the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy was making strong efforts to develop into an institute that conducts profound studies on not only history and the North Korean nuclear issue but also various other subjects related to the ROK’s politics and culture.

* unofficial translation