High-Level Party-Government Meeting to Discuss Flood Damage and Crop Supply Response on the 23rd

Kim Ki-hyun "We Need to Revise the Disaster Safety Standards Themselves"

The People Power Party, the government, and the Presidential Office will hold a high-level party-government consultation meeting at the Prime Minister's official residence in Samcheong-dong on the 23rd to discuss flood damage support and recovery.

On the morning of the 21st, Yoon Jae-ok, floor leader of the People Power Party, told reporters at the National Assembly, "(The high-level party-government meeting on the 23rd) will be an opportunity to examine whether there are issues in the usual distribution process of agricultural and marine products due to severe crop damage caused by the flood, and to comprehensively discuss matters related to the flood damage."

The People Power Party holds the position that, as extreme heavy rain situations frequently occur due to climate change, the government's disaster safety standards and laws and systems need to be reorganized. After finishing flood recovery volunteer work in Yecheon, Gyeongbuk on the 21st, Party Leader Kim Ki-hyun told reporters, "Due to climate change, it is predicted that unexpected frequent heavy rains will continue. We need to reorganize various disaster safety standards that were designed based on a 50- to 100-year frequency for abnormal weather."

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He added, "Not only heavy rain but also high temperatures, low temperatures, cold waves, and cold spells seem to threaten our society's safety much more than in the past," and said, "The party and the government are thinking of establishing a cooperative system to identify what needs to be reorganized in each sector and to revise laws and systems."

This high-level party-government meeting will be held about a month after the last one on June 18. Attendees from the ruling party include Leader Kim Ki-hyun, Floor Leader Yoon Jae-ok, Policy Committee Chair Park Dae-chul, Secretary-General Lee Cheol-gyu, and Senior Deputy Floor Leader Lee Yang-su. Government attendees include Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Choo Kyung-ho, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Jeong Hwang-geun, Minister of Environment Han Hwa-jin, Minister of Gender Equality and Family Kim Hyun-sook, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Won Hee-ryong, Director of the Office for Government Policy Coordination Bang Moon-kyu, and Vice Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety Han Chang-seop.

From the Presidential Office, Chief of Staff Kim Dae-gi, Senior Secretary for National Policy Lee Gwan-seop, Senior Secretary for Political Affairs Lee Jin-bok, Senior Secretary for Public Relations Kim Eun-hye, Senior Secretary for Economic Affairs Choi Sang-mok, and Senior Secretary for Social Affairs Ahn Sang-hoon are expected to attend.

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