President Yoon Suk-yeol has rejected a motion requesting the dismissal of Foreign Minister Park Jin, heralding further confrontation between the ruling and main opposition parties at the upcoming National Assembly audit sessions. According to senior presidential secretary for public relations Kim Eun-hye, Friday, Yoon said he will not accept the motion, which was passed unilaterally by the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) in the National Assembly on Thursday night.
A meeting between President Yoon Suk-yeol and the leaders of the ruling and main opposition parties may take place after his upcoming visit to Britain, the United States and Canada, a presidential official said Wednesday.
President Yoon Suk-yeol recently wrapped up a major reorganization of the staff of the presidential office, with more than 50 secretaries and their deputies either quitting or being reassigned. With his slimmer squad of staff, Yoon will take on a series of pending diplomatic and domestic tasks awaiting him, with the hope of maintaining the recovery momentum in his approval ratings.
After President Yoon Seok-yeol's visit to the UK and the US, a meeting with representatives of the ruling and opposition parties is expected to be promoted. Lee Jin-bok, senior presidential secretary for political affairs, told reporters after meeting with the new emergency response committee chairman Jeong Jin-seok at the National Assembly today, "It is necessary to consider meeting the representative and the floor leader since the president has visited overseas."
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