President Park arrives in UAE to boost bilateral ties

Moving on to President Park's trip to the Middle East. She is now in the United Arab Emirates.
As she did in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,… the president is expected to press ahead with her plans to expand economic cooperation in the Middle East.
Arirang's presidential office correspondent Choi You-sun , sends us this report from Abu Dhabi.
"This is President Park's second visit to Abu Dhabi in less than a year. She was here last May to mark an installation of a Korean-made nuclear reactor built under a 2009 bilateral agreement."

The reactor at the Barakah nuclear plant site, some 3-hundred kilometers west of Abu Dhabi, is part of a 19-billion-dollar contract Korea won to build four nuclear plants in the Gulf nation by the year 2020.
It's Korea's first-ever nuclear reactor export.
President Park's previous trip had to be brief, because it came only one month after the Sewol-ho ferry disaster.
This time, she plans to carry out her diplomacy in full force, to strengthen Seoul's cooperation with Abu Dhabi in nuclear energy, infrastructure, and health care.
In an interview with the UAE's official news agency, President Park stressed Korea and the UAE will be able to enjoy shared prosperity, if they bolster economic ties in such high value-added areas.
In that respect, the Korean president said the Barakah plant project has laid the groundwork for two-way cooperation for the next one-hundred years.
She added the two sides have complementary strengths: Korea in manufacturing, ICT and health care, the UAE in energy, finance and capital.
President Park then said she hoped to go beyond the economy to bolster security cooperation with the UAE, as peace and stability in the two sides' respective regions, Northeast Asia and the Middle East, are crucial to their prosperity.
Choi You-sun, Arirang News, Abu Dhabi.