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16 April 2013 [09:45] - Today.Az
By Arslan Abbasov
From Seoul, South Korea
Some 110 journalists from all across the world have arrived in South Korea for an annual conference to discuss journalism's future and role in a rapidly changing media environment.
The 2013 World Journalists Conference, hosted by the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) and bringing together journalists from 74 countries, started on Monday in Seoul.
The objectives of the conference, being held in the country for the first time, are to expand international relations and human network between world journalists and Korea, to boost the country's image and to introduce Korea's new government keynote as well as excellence of Korean culture to world journalists.
On the first day of the event conferences on the digital media era, the participating countries' media state and related issues were held. The conference was opened by South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong Won. Moreover, special sessions on the new Korean government's diplomatic policy were delivered by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Yun Byung-se; on international interchange in the age of globalization by Chairman of the Korea Foundation Kim Woosang.
In the frame of the conference, the world journalists adopted a declaration for peace on the Korean Peninsula as tensions have recently mounted there, raising concerns around the world. The participants urged North Korea to tone down what was labeled as provocative acts and hostile rhetoric to prove itself as a responsible member of the international community. The world journalists supported initiatives for the divided Korea to strive toward bilateral compromise and trust for co-development and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, as a step toward establishing peace.
The South and North Korea is the only divided nation in the world, as military confrontation from the two sides has remained along the 155-mile long Demilitarized Zone since the suspension of the Korean war in 1953 when an armistice agreement was signed.
The program of the world journalists' conference also includes visits to South Korea's National Assembly (parliament), local governments and various other places.
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Baku-based English language newspaper AzerNews, Arslan Abbasov, is attending the week-long conference from Azerbaijan.
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