S. Korean and Ethiopian leaders pledge efforts for peace on the Korean Peninsula

한-에티오피아 정상회담: 문 대통령 "한반도 평화 위해 국제사회와 함께 끝까지 최선"President Moon has reiterated his strong will to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula,... promising to do his best with the help of the international community.He was speaking in a bilateral summit meeting with the first African leader to visit Korea under the Moon administration -- the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.Shin Se-min at the Blue House.Sharing the goal of establishing peace in the region... were the South Korean leader Moon and his visiting Ethiopian counterpart, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, who is the first African leader to visit Seoul under the Moon administration."Together with the international community, we will do our best for complete denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula."Those comments are seen as Moon expressing his unchanged resolve in bringing peace to the divided peninsula, even in the face of growing reproaches from north of the border.To that,... the Ethiopian leader promised his support for Moon's efforts.South Korea has a long history with Ethiopia, which was the sole African nation to send ground troops to defend it during the Korean War in the early 1950s.Building on that friendship,... the leaders also agreed to expand their traditional ties to "mutually beneficial, substantive" cooperation in the areas of trade, investment and development.And they agreed on sharing economic benefits."Not only because of our historical relationship but also due to your development model, Ethiopia has always aspired to Korea's development model, and we want to follow that development model and to change Ethiopia's economic status. Not only Ethiopia but also Africa at large should follow your footsteps to transform our continent in the next few decades."The leaders also agreed on setting up a joint ministerial committee that will meet every two years to broaden their cooperation, focusing on fields such as politics, business, culture, technology and science.And the two sides signed MOUs that include providing Ethiopia with some 86 million dollars' worth of project loans for the construction of R&D centers at Adama Science and Technology University.Shin Se-min, Arirang News.