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November 06, 2024
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Why South Korea’s call for a Northeast Asia health initiative will likely fail

South Korea's president wants China, Mongolia, Japan and — most importantly — North Korea to band together on COVID-19

Last month, South Korean President Moon Jae-in pitched a big idea to the U.N. General Assembly: a public health cooperative among Northeast Asian countries — namely, North and South Korea.

Moon argued that the COVID-19 era makes this kind of cooperation more important than ever. His “Northeast Asia Cooperation Initiative for Infectious Disease Control and Public Health would include both Koreas, as well as China, Japan and Mongolia. 

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