{"id":35636,"date":"2021-05-26T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35636"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:04:27","slug":"rep-kim-meets-with-south-korean-president-moon-jae-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35636","title":{"rendered":"REP. KIM MEETS WITH SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT MOON JAE-IN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h3 mt-0 font-weight-bold\">May 25, 2021, Washington, DC \u2013 U.S. Rep. Young Kim (CA-39), one of the first Korean American women to serve in Congress and Vice Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation, joined a bipartisan congressional delegation to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday, May 20, 2021.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/youngkim.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/youngkim.house.gov\/files\/styles\/evo_featured_image\/public\/evo-media-image\/South%20Korean%20President%20Visit-8714.jpg?h=3dbd9eac&amp;itok=UFn9QsHl\" alt=\"Rep. Kim Joins Congressional Meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-In.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos courtesy of House Creative Services<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, the members shared their commitment to strengthen the nations\u2019 bilateral partnership and advance shared U.S.-South Korea priorities to help counter threats from North Korea, promote human rights and foster our partnership with key allies for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Korea is an important ally of the United States and a needed partner in countering the threats North Korea has posed to both of our countries,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said Kim.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cAs an immigrant from South Korea and one of the first Korean American women to serve in Congress, I am honored to have been able to meet with President Moon and share\u00a0my commitment to him to promote our countries\u2019 shared interests. I will do my part to\u00a0strengthen legislative priorities and bilateral relationship through my involvement as co-chair of the Congressional Study Group on Korea, US-ROK Interparliamentary Exchange and on\u00a0the House Foreign Affairs Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 25, 2021, Washington, DC \u2013&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35637,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35636\/revisions\/35637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}