President Lee Jae Myung, who is on a state visit to France, agreed to stabilize the Strait of Hormuz..

* It has been translated using AI President Lee Jae Myung, who is on a state visit to France, agreed to stabilize the Strait of Hormuz at a summit with French President Emmanuel Macron on the 8th (local time). While U.S. President Donald Trump pressed for "dispatch," he also decided to contribute to a multilateral solution. On this day, President Lee met with President Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris and shared △ an exclusive luncheon △ a summit △ an agreement and a memorandum of understanding (MOU) △ a joint press conference. The leaders of the two countries met for the second day in a row following the Lumiere Summit held in Saint-Paul-de-Vence the day before. President Lee said in a joint announcement, "I attended the Hormuz Strait Conference led by France and the United Kingdom in April and expressed my willingness to contribute to the Republic of Korea's stability and freedom of navigation," adding, "South Korea and France will continue close cooperation to ensure that freedom of navigation and global supply chain stability in the Hormuz Strait are restored as soon as possible." In the meantime, it was belatedly known that the Ministry of National Defense recently sent an investigation team to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to inspect the situation in the Middle East. It was interpreted that the government was trying to figure out the conditions for operations in the region with the possibility of sending troops to the Strait of Hormuz in mind. In a statement released on the same day, the Ministry of National Defense said, "We sent an investigation team to the region to understand the situation of Hormuz," adding, "The investigation team is intended to understand the situation and safety situation in the region." Regarding some media reports that the U.S. government has requested the dispatch of South Korean troops to the Strait of Hormuz by November, the Ministry of National Defense said, "It is not true that the U.S. has set a deadline for sending our assets to the Strait of Hormuz," adding, "There is nothing set regarding the dispatch." Meanwhile, South Korea and France have decided to expand economic cooperation. President Lee said, "We have decided to further strengthen economic and industrial cooperation with the aim of achieving $20 billion (about 27 trillion won) in trade by 2030." [Reporter SUNG SEUNG HUN in Paris / Reporter Oh Soo Hyun in Seoul] Memorandum of Understanding