Vice Protection Minister Lee Doo-hee, left, and Dutch Minister for Arms Procurement and Personnel Gijs Tuinman shake arms throughout their assembly in Seoul, Tuesday. Courtesy of protection ministry
Senior protection officers of South Korea and the Netherlands met in Seoul on Tuesday to debate methods to develop their cooperation within the arms trade and security-related areas, the protection ministry mentioned.
Of their talks, Vice Protection Minister Lee Doo-hee and Dutch Minister for Arms Procurement and Personnel Gijs Tuinman underscored the necessity to strengthen cooperation in an array of areas, together with high-level alternate, the arms trade, in addition to synthetic intelligence, area and cyber, the ministry mentioned.
Lee thanked Tuinman for his nation’s continued contribution for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. He additionally famous how North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile threats are a grave menace for the worldwide neighborhood and requested the Netherlands’ help for Seoul’s efforts to determine peace on the peninsula.
Tuinman mentioned bilateral cooperation is extra necessary than ever amid an growing safety interconnectedness amongst nations and referred to as for increasing sensible cooperation between South Korea and the Netherlands, in accordance with the ministry.
The Netherlands is among the many 22 nations that despatched troops or different types of help to again South Korea throughout and proper after the 1950-53 Korean Conflict.
