{"id":6787,"date":"2010-06-08T15:33:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2010-06-08T15:33:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T12:33:44","slug":"israeli-president-shimon-peres-visits-south-korea-52796416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/israeli-president-shimon-peres-visits-south-korea-52796416\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli president Shimon Peres visits South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/shimon-peres-south-korea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6790\" title=\"Israeli president Shimon Peres visits South Korea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/shimon-peres-south-korea-280x179.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli president Shimon Peres visits South Korea\" width=\"280\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/shimon-peres-south-korea-280x179.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/shimon-peres-south-korea.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived in Seoul on Tuesday for a working-level summit amid concerns the visit&#8217;s timing could negatively affect South Korea&#8217;s diplomatic efforts to censure North Korea at the United Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peres is accompanied on his trip by Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer,  Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon and a business delegation headed by Manufacturers&#8217; Association of Israel president Shraga Brosh.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Friday to punish Pyongyang, accusing its nuclear-armed neighbor of blowing apart one of its warships with a torpedo, killing 46 sailors. It was the first time Seoul has taken Pyongyang to the Security Council over an inter-Korean dispute, despite a history of being attacked by the North.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea has been working to garner international backing for the diplomatic action. Israel, meanwhile, has come under intense international criticism for its raid on a ship carrying aid to Hamas-ruled Gaza that killed eight Turks and a Turkish-American. Israel claims its troops acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Sunday on its Web site that the  South Korean government &#8220;lowered the status&#8221; of Peres&#8217; trip from an  official &#8220;state visit&#8221; to a routine &#8220;working visit&#8221; because of  &#8220;international pressure in the wake of Israel&#8217;s deadly raid&#8221; on the  Gaza-bound flotilla. The report did not cite any sources.<\/p>\n<p>Peres&#8217;  office strongly denied the claim, saying that the planned trip was  originally meant as a working visit. A South Korean Foreign Ministry  official backed up that view, saying the trip was never intended to be a  state visit. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not  authorized to speak to media.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! 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