Korea will leverage its manufacturing and defense industry capabilities to make the world safer and prosper together, while fulfilling its responsibilities in maintaining world peace, providing humanitarian aid and responding to disasters, Prime Minister Han Seong-sook said Tuesday. Han made the remark in a keynote speech at the Seoul Defense Dialogue, an annual security forum that Korea's defense ministry has hosted since 2012, noting that wars and conflicts in one region are never limited to that area but reach far beyond in a closely intertwined world, and that peace is the fundamental foundation for economic growth. "We have come to an era where, even if war breaks out outside our country, it has tremendous economic effects on our country and the people's livelihoods," Han said. "President Lee Jae Myung emphasizes that prosperity can never happen based only on economic growth, but it must be backed up by a stable and peaceful world order." The "irreplaceable Republic of Korea" that the government of President Lee aims to build is not a country that moves forward alone, but one that