Conservative Yoon Suk-yeol’s razor-thin 0.7% victory margin in South Korea’s March 9 presidential election was far from a public mandate for his much-touted hawkish foreign policy.
Yoon’s sharp rhetoric about a tougher stance toward North Korea–including talk of pre-emptive strikes against Pyongyang–is out of step with the South Korean electorate, the majority of whom want peace with the North.
His foreign policy stance promises to force South Korea into the frontline of a new US New Cold War, helping maintain a state of tension in the Korean peninsula so the US can justify its seven-decade hold over South Korea, and secure its forward military position against China.
Yoon’s victory is a wake-up call for those who strive for peace in the Korean peninsula as well as in Northeast Asia.
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