South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung said Monday he hopes that Pope Leo XIV will visit North Korea as a gesture of peace on the Korean Peninsula, the Yonhap News agency reported.

Lee thanked South Korea’s Catholic Church for its contributions to human rights, peace and the country’s democratization. He ...

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President Lee Jae Myung met with Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik on Monday and expressed hope that Pope Leo XIV might visit ...

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The invitation tests South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s pragmatic diplomacy at a sensitive time for Seoul, observers say.

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