UB city will host Unification Forum

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The 15th World Korean Forum, an annual forum hosted by the Korea Global Foundation (KGF), will be held in the UB city, this June 23-24 with participants of experts, scholars and government officials, according to the KGF organization led by Rhee Tshang-chu, professor of St. Petersburg State University. This news was released on koreatimes.co.kr on April 20. The participants will discuss ways to facilitate the stability and unification of the Korean Peninsula at the National University of Mongolia during the three sessions of the two-day forum. Experts will discuss issues related to unification of the two Koreas, the Cold War-like relationships among the key powers - namely the United States, China and Japan - on the Korean Peninsula, and possible cooperation with countries in the Eurasian region. Previous forums were held in Vancouver, Manila, Sydney and Brussels. In a press release circulated last week, Chairman Rhee of the KGF noted that holding the forum in Mongolia is meaingful in that the two ethnic groups share a lot in common and have maintained close relationships over the past 1,000 years. Unification has become a buzzword after President Park Geun-hye said in a speech early this year that unification of the two Koreas would be a bonanza. Park said that South and North Korea would benefit if they are reunified. Recently, she proposed that South and North Korea work together to improve human rights condition of the North, to increase people-to-people exchanges, and to develop North Korea's natural resources. North Korea rejected the offer.