President Moon Jae-in is in Singapore for a slew of meetings with leaders from the ASEAN region.<br />Official say they expect the South Korean leader to tout the benefits of his signature New Southern Policy which aims to sharply boost ties between Seoul and Southeast Asia.<br />Shin Se-min reports from Singapore. <br />President Moon Jae-in kicks off his four day stay in Singapore with bilateral meetings with the leaders of Brunei, Laos and Russia... on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asian Summits.<br />The South Korean leader is likely to trumpet his administration's New Southern Policy that he introduced last year.<br />It's one of President Moon's top foreign policy objectives that seeks to establish stronger political and economic cooperation with countries to the south and southeast of the Korean Peninsula.<br />The president is set to propose measures that will help accelerate the policy,... such as hosting a special Korea-ASEAN Summit next year and establishing a Korea-Mekong Summit to bring Seoul closer to countries like Cambodia and Laos. <br />President Moon will also attend summits related to ASEAN,... like the ASEAN Plus Three Summit, including Korea, China and Japan as well as the East Asian Summit. <br />The South Korean leader's two-nation tour, that includes a trip to Papua New Guinea, will also give him a prime opportunity to win further support for his push for peace on the Korean Peninsula.<br /><br />"While much of the focus of President Moon's four-day stay here in Singapore is on promoting his New Southern Policy,... the one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this Wednesday is highly likely to be related to North Korea,... possibly even about the progress made so far on a visit to Seoul by the regime's leader Kim Jong-un.Russia. Shin Se-min, Arirang News, Singapore." <br />
