DP chair hopeful says Seoul should bolster its diplomatic capacity

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Song Young-gil, a six-term lawmaker who is considered a potential candidate for the ruling Democratic Party's chair post, said that South Korea must strengthen its diplomatic capacity as global bipolarization unfolds.

"Former President Kim Dae-jung said that South Korea must become a nation that engages in diplomacy, yet we are seeing diplomatic standing in the international community decline with poor performance," Song said at a parliamentary forum to evaluate Seoul's foreign policy that ...