1. For the “Republic of Korea-Japan junior diplomats exchange program,” an official of the ROK Foreign Ministry will be dispatched to the Japanese Foreign Ministry from July 25 to August 5, and an official of the Japanese Foreign Ministry will also come to the ROK Foreign Ministry at an appropriate time in 2016.

2. This exchange program started in a follow-up to the “Joint Declaration on a New ROK-Japan Partnership towards the 21st Century,” which had been adopted in October 1998 by former President Kim Dae-jung of the ROK and then Prime Minister Obuchi of Japan. The program, after being conducted from 1999 till 2001, was suspended and then resumed in 2012 as agreed by the two countries.

3. The exchange program is expected to help enhance mutual understanding and trust between diplomats and increase exchanges between the Foreign Ministries of the two countries, thereby contributing to efforts to develop friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.


* unofficial translation