Chiefs of South, North Korean Red Cross to meet in regional forum this week
SEOUL, (MILLAT ONLINE):Red Cross chiefs of South and North Korea will meet this week in a regional forum to discuss cooperation on social issues, the South Korean chief said Monday.
Park Kyung-seo, the president of the Red Cross in South Korea, said in a speech to a seminar, “I will fly to Hong Kong and have half-official, half-informal discussions with the Red Cross of North Korea.”
He said the meeting will bring together the Red Cross chiefs of six Northeast Asian countries, including the two Koreas, China, Japan and Mongolia, Wednesday and Thursday in the Chinese territory.
The 2018 East Asian Red Cross leadership meeting is designed to discuss mainly regional cooperation on issues like reducing the risk of disaster and support for young people. But it could possibly touch upon humanitarian assistance between the two Koreas, as it would be a rare chance for officials from the two Koreas to meet ahead of an inter-Korean summit slated for late April.
“There’s no arrangement so far for a separate meeting with the North Korean Red Cross,” a Red Cross official here said.
The same Red Cross leadership meeting held in Beijing in 2014 was attended by the former president of the South Korean Red Cross and a vice chief of the North Korean Red Cross.