President Lee Jae Myung speaks throughout a coverage briefing by the protection and veterans affairs ministries held on the protection ministry constructing in Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap
President Lee Jae Myung instructed the federal government Thursday to carry consultations with Beijing on repatriating the stays of Korean independence fighters in China, elevating the problem as a doable agenda merchandise for a possible summit with Chinese language President Xi Jinping.
Lee made the remarks after Veterans Minister Kwon Oh-eul briefed him on plans to excavate and produce dwelling the stays of Ahn Jung-geun (1879-1910), which Kwon mentioned are believed to be buried close to Lushun Jail within the northern Chinese language port metropolis of Dalian.
“Within the case of excavation and repatriation of stays, consultations with China are important,” Lee mentioned throughout a coverage briefing by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs in Seoul.
Lee instructed the ministry to push forward with consultations with Beijing as a possible summit agenda merchandise, saying there may be the potential for a summit with Xi “quickly.”
Kwon mentioned he plans to go to China to assist find Ahn’s stays, including that the ministry can also be working to carry again the stays of three independence fighters from the interval of Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea.
Ahn was executed on the jail in 1910 for the assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi in China’s Harbin the earlier 12 months. He had requested that his stays be returned to Korea after independence, however that want has but to be fulfilled.
Lee held his first summit with Xi on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation discussion board in Korea on Nov. 1, the place the 2 leaders agreed to carry follow-up talks in China, that are broadly anticipated subsequent month.
