South Korea's Unification Minister takes office one year ago... ”We will establish a policy of peaceful unification based on freedom and democracy”

On the 29th, South Korean Unification Minister Kim Young-ho said, "Our goal is to steadily manage the divided Korean Peninsula while formulating and promoting a peaceful unification policy based on the basic liberal democratic order."
"It is the mission and responsibility that has been given to me," he said. On the same day, Minister Kim sent a "message for the first anniversary of my inauguration" to staff, saying, "It is important that we clarify the direction and destination we should take."
"It is difficult, but it is important that we continue to make patient efforts to pave the way for dialogue with North Korea," Kim said. "The starting point is that 'the people of both Koreas
"The principle is that each person must be respected and enjoy freedom and prosperity to the full," he said.
"We need a 'unification policy,'" he said, calling for "active acceptance of North Korean defectors, which could be considered the first unification."
He also said, "Unification is not just an issue between North and South Korea. We will pursue unification diplomacy to expand support from the international community so that the unification of the Korean Peninsula can contribute to world peace and prosperity."
We need to strengthen it," he stressed.