Envoy expects peace pledge

South Korea’s ambassador to Canada says he expects the federal government to make some “ambitious” promises when his country hosts a major peacekeeping summit next week. Ambassador Keung Ryong Chang says that expectation is based on Canada’s historic sup- port for the United Nations and peacekeeping, and not any specific knowledge about Ottawa’s plans. The U.S. is pressing Canada to make good on its past promise to provide a 200-soldier quick reaction force to the UN, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first committed to in 2017.