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Moon Jae-in
Moon Jae-in
Moon Jae-in was president of South Korea from 2017 to 2022.
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24 Jan 1953
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Former President of South Korea
Balloons carrying leaflets and a banner denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un being prepared for launch near the border between the two Koreas in 2016. Photo: AP
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Will Kim Jong-un reciprocate first move by South Korea’s Lee to ease tensions?

A proposed halt to the launch of anti-North propaganda leaflets may signal a major policy shift by President Lee Jae-myung, analysts say.

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South Korea’s ties with Japan face new test after ex-forced labourer wins suit

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South Korea’s Lee aims for swift presidential office move amid security concerns

Japan

South Korea’s Lee pledges warmer ties, but past tensions leave Japan ‘worried’

A minor bilateral misstep or the need to push a nationalist agenda could see ties spiral to the lows of 2019, analysts warn.

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South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung makes an arm heart gesture to supporters outside the National Assembly on Wednesday. Lee has pledged to foster warmer ties with Japan. Photo: AFP
China-South Korea relations

‘US troops critical’: South Korean presidential candidate signals turn on China

Lee Jae-myung says Trump’s attempt to engage Kim Jong-un in dialogue is ‘helpful for the peace of the Korean peninsula’.

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Diplomacy

Opinion | Why South Korea’s next leader should revive 6-party nuclear talks

Given the Trump-Kim bromance and with a potential new approach by Seoul, a return to six-party talks grows likelier.

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Diplomacy

Opinion | After hardline Yoon, South Korea needs a more balanced foreign policy

The next leader must broaden diplomacy while rejecting nuclear arms and regaining wartime military control.

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South Korean presidential frontrunners Kim Moon-soo, of the incumbent People Power Party, and Lee Jae-myung, of the Democratic Party, are seen during a televised debate on May 18, ahead of the June 3 election. Photo: AP
South Korea

Who is South Korea’s presidential front runner Lee Jae-myung?

Lee has pledged to take a pragmatic approach to foreign policy and the economy in sharp contrast with impeached president Yoon Suk-yeol.

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South Korea

Young South Korean men and women deeply divided on politics, survey shows

The poll found that men and women in their 20s had the largest political ideology gap of any age group.

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North Korea

Opinion | Kim can’t keep on sending North Korean soldiers to bleed for Russia

Kim’s recklessness costs lives, creates domestic unhappiness and has angered China. With Trump back and a friendlier Seoul on the cards, Kim must reconsider.

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Ukraine war

Opinion | Why a Trump-Putin Ukraine peace deal could be good news for North Korea

Trump’s readiness to sideline allies and make concessions to pursue a deal with Russia suggests he may do the same with North Korea.

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US President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sentosa Island in Singapore on June 12, 2018. Photo: AP
Diplomacy

Opinion | China should seize the moment to promote peace on Korean peninsula

The weakening of the Russia-North Korea alliance, political change in South Korea and Trump’s return create a conducive environment for denuclearisation talks.

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The fall of Yoon Suk-yeol: from South Korea’s rising star to impeachment

Once hailed as a reformer and anti-corruption crusader, Yoon’s presidency spiralled into chaos amid scandal and short-lived martial law.

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Japan

Will ties between Japan and South Korea worsen if Yoon Suk-yeol is ousted?

Japan is concerned that South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung might take over Yoon given his stance against Tokyo, analysts say.

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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of their meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Lima last month. Photo: dpa
South Korea

Former South Korean officials accused of THAAD data leak to China, activists

South Korea’s state auditor alleges that the former officials disclosed the details in a bid to slow down the full deployment of THAAD.

THAAD interceptors arrive in Seongju, South Korea, in September 2017. Photo: News1 via Reuters
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Opinion | A wise South Korea would rise above the North’s trash balloons

Seoul should take the initiative in reducing tensions, even if it looks weak. In the inter-Korean chess game, a retreat could be a power move.

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South Korea

South Korea investigates if ex-first lady used public funds for 2018 India trip

Former first lady Kim Jung-sook’s jaunt attracted renewed scrutiny after her husband Moon Jae-in shed light on why she travelled to India in his memoir published last month.

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Diplomacy

Opinion | To defuse tensions with North Korea, let the European Union try

North Korea has declared South Korea an enemy and shown no interest in responding to US overtures. Without the baggage of hostile relations, the European Union can engage North Korean in dialogue and at least learn about Pyongyang’s intentions.

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Employees of the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex pose for a photo as they read a copy of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper covering North Korea’s demolition of the North-South joint liaison office, in Pyongyang on June 17, 2020. Photo: AFP
South Korea

After South Korea’s Dior bag scandal, a Chanel coat comes under scrutiny

The ruling party says it will investigate the wife of former leader Moon Jae-in for allegedly buying a Chanel jacket with taxpayers’ money.

North Korea

Letters | North Korea’s message should spark a rethink of the South’s peace strategy

Readers discuss why the South Korean fantasy of achieving intra-Korean peace through appeasement has been shattered, and parallels between Russia and Israel.

Diplomacy

Asian Games a chance for China to break the ice with sports diplomacy

Can Beijing mend fences with its neighbours in Northeast Asia as host of the region’s sporting spectacular?

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South Korea

South Korea’s ‘pro-US’ Pacific tilt triggers alarm, warnings in China

President Yoon Suk-yeol’s Pacific overtures reflect his desire for South Korea to become a ‘global pivotal state’ with a ‘bold’ foreign policy – but could it turn into a ‘nightmare’?

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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol (right) shakes hands with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown during a dinner party for the Korea-Pacific Islands Summit at a Seoul hotel last month. Photo: South Korean Presidential Office /EPA-EFE
Diplomacy

Opinion | Peace on Korean peninsula won’t be won by recycling failed hardline approaches

South Korea’s national security strategy centres on boosting deterrence, sanctions and response capabilities to North Korean threats – – all methods that have failed to get Pyongyang to denuclearise

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South Korea

South Korea pivots to ‘hard-line’ on China as Yoon questions envoy’s comments

The South Korean president said he doubted whether China’s ambassador ‘has an attitude of mutual respect’, as local media reported that Seoul was pivoting to a ‘hard-line stance’ in its relations with Beijing.

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Seoul-Tokyo WWII sex slaves’ details will not be revealed, top court rules

In 2015, the two countries signed a controversial deal on the sexual enslavement of South Korean women by Japan during World War II; this latest ruling is viewed as favouring President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been striving to improve relations with Japan.

Portraits of late former sex slaves who were forced to serve for the Japanese Army during World War II in South Korea. Photo: AP
Japan

Japan and South Korea are cosying up because ‘it makes perfect sense’

Seoul and Tokyo are seeking a thaw in relations as shared security concerns push them to fulfil their roles as otherwise ‘natural allies’.

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South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan’s Fumio Kishida. Photo: AP
North Korea

‘I still dream about North Korea’: lonely defectors regret fleeing to South

‘I am so lonely,’ said one defector whose son was beaten to death by North Korean authorities when they discovered she had fled. ‘I want to go back and die there – South Korea is as suffocating as the North.’

Diplomacy

Opinion | South Korea’s hardline stance is failing as Kim fires off missiles, threats

Several North Korean missiles have been fired in response to US-South Korean drills as Pyongyang warns of war provocations, and talk in Seoul turns to nuclear arms. What happened to diplomacy and dialogue?

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