President Lee Jae Myung, right, shakes hands with soldiers of a Marine Corps unit based on Yeonpyeong Island, Wednesday. Yonhap
President Lee Jae Myung visited a front-line Marine Corps unit near North Korea and stressed the importance of strong deterrence against the enemy to ensure peace on Wednesday, the eve of the 76th anniversary of the start of the Korean War.
Lee traveled to the Marine Corps unit based on Yeonpyeong Island, just below the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea, the de facto inter-Korean maritime border, to mark the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1950-53 war.
The war ended on July 27, 1953, with the signing of an armistice, leaving the Korean Peninsula divided into the capitalist South and the socialist North, with the two sides technically still at war.
Sharing lunch with the unit's service members, Lee described three stages of ensuring national security: winning a fight, winning without a fight and making a fight unnecessary.
