Seoul: President Lee Jae Myung held his first phone talks with Mark Rutte, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), on Thursday and discussed ways to deepen Seoul's partnership with the transnational military alliance, Lee's office said.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the phone talks between Lee and Rutte came amid a recent agreement between Seoul and NATO to establish a working-level consultative body on defense industry cooperation.