Yoon heralds tough stance on N. Korea as Pyongyang threatens to cross 'red line'
04:33 March 10, 2022
Yonhap News By Choi Soo-hyang
SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is expected to take a hard-line stance on North Korea, similar to approaches under the conservative Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations, after taking office in May.
He appears tempted to undo much of what the liberal Moon Jae-in administration has done over the past five years to engage Pyongyang in dialogue.
Yoon, of the conservative main opposition People Power Party, won the election at a time when the Kim Jong-un regime has shifted back to provocative mode. Pyongyang has conducted a series of ballistic missile tests in recent months and even hinted at the possibility of firing a long-range rocket. The Korea peace process is in the doldrums.
In response, the top prosecutor-turned-politician has raised the need to consider a preemptive strike on North Korea in the event of an imminent threat and the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system, called THAAD, to counter the North's growing missile threat.
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I don't think Yoon's administration will last 5 years because he is unethical, incompetent and authoritarian by nature. Not in the form of a democracy anyway. He admires former dictator Chun Doo-hwan.