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South Korea invested on Tuesday (10.05.1200) to its new president Yoon Suk-yeol, who began his five-year term asking for the “complete denuclearization” of North Korea, while indicating that the door to dialogue “will remain open” to achieve a peaceful resolution of the conflict on the peninsula.
“While it is true that North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs are a threat not only to our security and that of Northeast Asia, the door to dialogue will remain open so that we can resolve this threat peacefully,” Yoon said. in his speech, delivered before some 40. people in Parliament Gardens.
“If North Korea really embarks on a process to complete its denuclearization, we are ready to work with the international community and present a bold plan that will strengthen the economy of North Korea and will improve the quality of life of its people”, affirmed the conservative politician.
Domestic growth
Yoon stressed that North Korean disarmament will bring “ peace and prosperity” to the peninsula and also highlighted the need to promote domestic growth to close the social gap.
“Our society is plagued by divisions and conflicts that threaten our freedom and our liberal democratic order”, affirmed the new president, who prevailed in the presidential elections on March 9 for barely 80.000 votes (the 0,07 % of total) to liberal Lee Jae-myung.
“I don’t think we can overcome this problem without first achieving growth fast and sustainable”, defended Yoon, who before taking the podium to take the presidential oath and deliver his inaugural speech ural greeted the people gathered in the gardens of the parliament.
Commitment to science, technology and innovation
Then came the handshake with the outgoing president, the liberal Moon Jae-in, with the ousted former president Park Geun-hye, and with representatives of foreign governments such as the Chinese vice president, Wang Qishan, or the American second gentleman, Douglas Emhoff.
The one who will be president of South Korea until 2022 assured that the growth his country so desperately needs “will only be possible through science, technology and innovation.”
Yoon inherits a country whose economy has slowed down (the International Monetary Fund has reduced its growth outlook for this year by half a point to 2.5%) in an inflationary context caused by the post-pandemic and the problems derived from the war of Ukraine.
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