SOUTH KOREA: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell delivers Obama letters to South Korea's President-elect Park Geun-hye

Record ID: 187215

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell delivers Obama letters to South Korea's President-elect Park Geun-hye
  • Date: 16th January 2013
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (JANUARY 16, 2013) (REUTERS) *CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY** U.S. DELEGATION WAITING SOUTH KOREA'S PRESIDENT-ELECT PARK GEUN-HYE SHAKING HANDS WITH U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE KURT CAMPBELL, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH KOREA SUNG KIM AND U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MARK LIPPORT VIEW OF MEETING CAMPBELL AND PARK (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREA'S PRESIDENT-ELECT PARK GEUN-HYE SAYING: "President Obama invited me to the United States. So I will visit the States and build up a good relationship of mutual trust with President Obama." U.S. DELEGATION (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREA'S PRESIDENT-ELECT PARK GEUN-HYE SAYING: "Taking the 60th anniversary of the U.S.-South Korea alliance as a momentum, I hope the relationship between two countries should develop more." CAMPBELL AND PARK (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE KURT CAMPBELL SAYING: "I'd like to take this opportunity to formally present to you letters of appreciation and congratulations from President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -" (and handing over an envelope to Park) VIEW OF MEETING SOUTH KOREAN DELEGATION (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MARK LIPPORT SAYING: "And we look forward in the coming months and years to deepening and strengthening this great alliance and taking into presidential levels to promote peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula and throughout Asia, Thank you." U.S. DELEGATION MORE OF MEETING
  • Embargoed: 31st January 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Korea, Republic of
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA2PL7MBP7AQGNGOP2ZTOQEVYP0
  • Story Text: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell delivered a letter from President Barack Obama to South Korea's President-elect Park Geun-hye in Seoul on Wednesday (January 16).

    "I'd like to take this opportunity to formally present to you letters of appreciation and congratulations from President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton" said Campbell before delivering an envelope to Park, who will take office next month.
    His trip came as the United States, South Korea, Japan and their European allies were pushing at the United Nations to expand long-standing U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea after the North's rocket launch on December 12.
    Obama sent top Asian diplomacy and security officials to South Korea and Japan to calm tensions between two U.S. allies whose squabbling has frustrated efforts to deal with a troublesome North Korea and an increasingly assertive China.
    Park said at the meeting that she would build up a good relationship of mutual trust with Obama.

    "President Obama invited me to the United States. So I will visit the States and build up a good relationship of mutual trust with President Obama," said Park.

    "Taking the 60th anniversary of the U.S.-South Korea alliance as a momentum, I hope the relationship between two countries should develop more," Park added.
    Campbell was accompanied by U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Mark Lipport and National Security Council Senior Director for Asian Affairs Daniel Russel.
    Assistant Secretary of Defence Mark Lipport said he looked forward to deepening and strengthening the U.S - South Korea alliance.

    "And we look forward in the coming months and years to deepening and strengthening this great alliance and taking into presidential levels to promote peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula and throughout Asia, Thank you."
    Campbell is expected to leave South Korea on Wednesday for Japan.
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