The memorandums of understanding in areas such as health and education were signed Sunday at Uganda’s State House, where visiting South Korean leader Park Geun-hye and her delegation were given a banquet.
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Park’s next stop is Kenya.
In the last three years, South Korea exported $350,000 worth of light military equipment to Uganda, effectively easing the country’s reliance on the North.
The South Korean President Park Geun-hye, made the call in a chat with African diplomats and students at African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa. Kenya is vying to emerge as a new industrial nation with its Vision 2030 for growth, and President Park’s visit to Nairobi will be focused on laying a foundation for Korean businesses to enter East Africa. The two countries established diplomatic ties in 1964 when Park’s late father, Park Chung-hee, and Jomo Kenyatta, late father of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, were both in power.
“During the summit, Uganda’s President Museveni. said he had ordered (officials) to faithfully enforce the U.N. Security Council resolution including halting of its security, military and police cooperation with North Korea”, Jeong Yeon-guk, a spokesman for Park, told reporters in the Ugandan capital on Sunday, according to the presidential Blue House in Seoul.
By way of further clarification, the Ministry said that the disengagement of defence and police cooperation does not imply that Uganda has severed its relations with DRPK.
He cited the process and time taken for South Korean people to get a work permit in Kenya terming it unnecessary. South Korea’s president h.
The young leader also defended North Korea’s widely-condemned nuclear arsenal as a deterrent against “hostile” USA policy against his regime. Park’s trip also created a favorable atmosphere for Korea to win $2.8 billion worth of projects including an oil refinery construction project in Uganda. Under the program, trucks offering health care and cultural contents will help Korea establish a stronger footprint in Africa.
“We will discuss together the challenges Uganda will likely face in the course of making progress and provide the necessary cooperation when needed”, she said.
North Korea has been training the Ugandan security forces in physical fitness, marine warfare and weapons handling.
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“We are disengaging the cooperation we are having with North Korea, as a result of United Nations sanctions”, Sam Kutesa, Uganda’s foreign minister, told the Ugandan broadcaster NBS Television.
