South Korea’s new liberal President Moon Jae-in (J-N) was sworn in today and has vowed to immediately tackle the difficult tasks of addressing North Korea’s advancing nuclear ambitions and soothing tensions with the United States and China.
Moon said in his first speech as president he would begin efforts to defuse security tensions on the Korean peninsula and negotiate with Washington and Beijing to ease a row over a U.S. missile defense system being deployed in the South.
He said that he would even be willing to visit Pyongyang under the right circumstances.
According to BBC News, the new president has also vowed to unify a divided country reeling from a corruption scandal which saw his predecessor, Park Geun-hye, impeached.
Taiwan National Day Celebration
