by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2023 In January, South Korea’s new conservative leader, President Yoon Suk-Yeol, ruffled feathers in Washington when he said the South could develop its own nuclear weapons or ask the U.S. to redeploy nukes on the Korean Peninsula if the threat from North Korea grows. No South Korean leader had explicitly […]
FPI / March 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct South Korea’s new conservative President Yoon Suk-Yeol told the National Intelligence Service (NIS) that it must strive to be among the world’s best amid the ongoing threat posed by North Korea’s massive spy network. Yoon’s prioritizing national security is a marked departure from the lax policies of the leftist […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 23, 2022 It has been an eventful week at the United Nations for South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol, one of the few conservatives to win a presidency anywhere in the world this year. In a speech before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Yoon invoked the word “freedom” 18 times, according […]
FPI / May 26, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com The United States and South Korea have reconfirmed that the U.S. will deploy strategic assets, which could include long-range strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons, at the appropriate time as a means of deterring the Kim Jong-Un regime’s nuclear buildup. In the summit on May 21, newly elected […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2022 South Korea’s National Election Commission (NEC) reportedly mishandled ballots of Covid patients during early voting in the presidential election. Some of the early voters were given ballots already filled in for ruling Democrats’ party candidate Lee Jae-Myung, reports said. Lee and Yoon Suk-Yeol of the conservative main opposition People […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2022 Three men who were potential whistleblowers in a real estate scandal involving South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-Myung have turned up dead, a report said. “The ruling party’s candidate for the top job is suspected of profiting immensely from a multi-million-dollar real estate swindle, which allegedly included members of […]
