Conservative Yoon Suk Yeol has won South Korea’s presidential election, with the political novice and avowed anti-feminist immediately promising a more hawkish policy on the nuclear-armed North.
After a bitter, hard-fought election campaign Yoon, formerly a top prosecutor who has never held elected office, was declared winner as rival Lee Jae-myung from the incumbent Democratic party conceded defeat.
His victory of his People Power party looks set to usher in a more muscular foreign policy for the world’s tenth largest economy after the dovish approach pursued by outgoing President Moon Jae-in during his five years in office.
Yoon will immediately have to confront an assertive Pyongyang, which has embarked on a record-breaking blitz of weapons tests this year, including a launch just days before the election.
He vowed to “sternly deal” with the threat posed by Kim Jong Un’s regime.
Source: www.thejournal.ie
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