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The Christian Science Monitor1d
With Lee’s election, South Korea returns to ‘pragmatic’ diplomacy
The election of Lee Jae-myung heralds a foreign policy shift for South Korea as the country seeks to balance its critical U.S ...
South Koreans Have a New President, and Mixed Emotions
After six months of turmoil, citizens hope for better times. But political polarization and international tensions over trade ...
Foreign Affairs2d
The End of the Long American Century
He began his second term by brandishing American hard power, threatening Denmark over the control of Greenland, and suggesting he would take back the Panama Canal. He successfully wielded threats of ...
Why South Korea’s new leader may be on a collision course with Trump
The new South Korean president, Lee Jae-myung, calls himself a foreign policy “pragmatist”. He says he is driven by South ...
South Korea's new president vows to bolster ties with US, Japan
South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung says he’ll pursue dialogue with North Korea while bolstering a trilateral partnership with the U.S. and Japan ...
South Korea faces a reckoning: Political dysfunction, moral drift and the path to unification
South Korea's transformation from colonial subjugation and a war-ravaged state into one of the world's leading economies and ...
What Lee’s presidency could mean after months of turmoil in South Korea
Images from the election of South Korea’s new president, liberal Lee Jae-myung, are everything you’d expect to see in one of ...
New South Korean President Lee faces crucial challenges at home and abroad
New South Korean President Lee Jae-myung described his victory as the start of the country’s return to normalcy, after winning a tense election that capped off months of political turmoil ...