South Korea’s new president Yoon Suk-yeol has no doubts: his country’s future depends on a stronger alliance with the United States.
Yoon, sworn in today (10 May), has declared that South Korea must become a “global pivotal state”, an ambition that will shape the foreign policy of his five-year term. He believes the outgoing president, Moon Jae-in, spent too much time focusing on the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, and was too deferential towards Xi Jinping, the Chinese president. Yoon intends to take a new approach to both those relationships.
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