Yonhap News Agency to Host Symposium on Security Policy Amid Global Instability

SEOUL, June 19 (Yonhap) -- Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's key newswire, will host a symposium next week with a focus on navigating security policy directions amid fracturing alliances and growing supply chain instability.

The annual Korean Peninsula Symposium will take place at Lotte Hotel Seoul in central Seoul next Friday, co-hosted by the Ministry of Unification and the Institute for National Security Strategy.

Unification Minister Chung Dong-young will deliver a keynote speech on the policy direction of President Lee Jae Myung's government for North Korea and its peace strategy.

U.S. House Reps. Young Kim (R-CA) and Ami Bera (D-CA) will virtually join the opening ceremony with video messages highlighting the bilateral alliance.

A message from President Lee will be read on his behalf by Lee Kyu-youn, senior presidential secretary for public relations and communication. New National Assembly Speaker Cho Jeong-sik will also deliver congratulatory remarks.

Yonhap News Agency President and CEO Hwang Dae-il will speak at the opening.

The first of the two-session forum will bring together experts from the United States, Japan, China and others to address the changing dynamics of alliances in the current international relations and discuss the strategies of key nations in relation to the shifting global alliance system.

In the second roundtable, security experts and former ranking foreign policy officials will discuss growing uncertainties over economic and energy security and explore how South Korea should chart its ways forward.

Yonhap has hosted the symposium annually with the unification ministry since 2015 to bring together experts, politicians and government officials to examine the security situation on the Korean Peninsula and explore solutions to emerging issues.

The forum will be livestreamed via YouTube links in Korean and English.