President Moon Jae-in is set to make an address to the National Assembly on Wednesday focusing on calls for bipartisan cooperation in expediting economic recovery and resolving the North Korea problem peacefully.
The state of the nation address will begin at 10 a.m. and will mark his second speech to the unicameral parliament since he took office in May.
It comes as the parliament concluded its audit of government agencies Tuesday and the Moon administration was set to submit its first annual budget bill.
The government has proposed 429 trillion won ($382.6 billion) in spending for 2018, up 7.1 percent from this year, as the government is poised to implement Moon's key election pledges that include the creation of 810,000 new jobs in the public sector.
The file photo, taken June 12, 2017, shows President Moon Jae-in delivering his first state of the nation address at the National Assembly in Seoul, in which the new president asked the parliament to approve the government`s request for an 11 trillion-won supplementary budget. (Yonhap)
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