Lee: “Protectionism threatens our survival”. And opens to North Korea | EUROtoday

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The new South Korean president Lee Jae-Myung has promised to restart the talks with North Korea and to strengthen the trilateral partnership with the United States and Japan, outlining the important thing political aims of its five-year mandate.

In his inaugural speech on the National Assembly, Lee stated that his authorities will face the potential assaults of North Korea with a “strong deterrence” primarily based on the stable army alliance between South Korea and the United States. However, he added that “he will open a communication channel with North Korea” with the need to determine peace within the Korean peninsula by means of dialogue and cooperation.

Lee has added that it’s going to pursue a realistic diplomacy with neighboring nations and strengthen the trilateral cooperation between Seoul, Washington and Tokyo on the idea of the stable alliance between South Korea and the United States.

“Through a pragmatic diplomacy based on national interests, we will transform the crisis caused by the great change in the economic and global security panorama into an opportunity to maximize our national interests,” he stated.

“The rapid changes in the global order, such as the growing protectionism and the renovation of the supply chain, represent a threat to our own survival”, added Lee, on the industrial chaos triggered by the duties of Donald Trump.