The government held a second meeting Wednesday of the 2045 Strategy Committee charged with drawing up a blueprint and strategies for what Korea should look like in 2045 and identified 17 core tasks with the goal of announcing the final strategies by the end of the year, officials said. The committee, launched in May, is aimed at developing long-term national development strategies to muster up national capabilities so as to deal systematically with hard-to-resolve challenges, such as polarization, demographic changes, regional extinction and climate change. The year 2045 carries a symbolic meaning as the centennial of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule. "The 2045 national development strategy should be a strategy for all people, not just the government alone. What's more important than anything else is to collect wisdom from all people across generations," Prime Minister Han Seong-sook said while presiding over the committee's second meeting. "We will try to select future-oriented, daring and challenging tasks to build an 'irreplaceable Republic of Korea' in every aspe