President Lee Jae-myung will attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York and deliver a keynote address. He will also chair an open debate of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the first time as a South Korean president.
According to the presidential office on the 21st, Lee will visit New York from the 22nd to the 26th for five days and three nights to attend the high-level week of the 80th U.N. General Assembly.
On the 23rd, he will be the seventh among leaders of 193 member states to deliver a keynote speech. Lee plans to declare "Korea's return to the world stage after overcoming the martial law emergency." He is expected to mention in the speech solutions for overcoming the Dec. 3 martial law emergency and for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Wi Sung-lac, director of the National Security Office, said in a preview briefing on the 19th, "Under U.N. support, we defended democracy from the brink of war and grew from a recipient country into a donor. Having recently overcome a crisis of democracy and returned, Korea aims to highlight at this year's U.N. General Assembly—marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N.'s founding and the 80th anniversary of liberation—that it is contributing to the agendas of peace, development and human rights as a globally responsible nation."
On the 24th, for the first time as a South Korean president, he will chair an open UNSC debate. The meeting will be held under the theme "AI and international peace and security." The international community's joint response measures will be discussed.
On the sidelines of the General Assembly, he will also handle a full slate of events. On the first day, the 22nd, he will meet with Larry Fink, chair of the World Economic Forum and chair of BlackRock, to discuss cooperation on AI and the energy transition. He will also seek ways to advance South Korea–U.S. relations by meeting with members of the U.S. House and Senate, and he will hold a town hall with Korean compatriots.
On the final day, the 25th, he will attend a Korea investment summit on Wall Street with economic and financial figures from both South Korea and the United States. The Deputy Minister said, "We plan to meet key global core investors to introduce our government's economic policies and request investment in Korea."