South Korea’s new conservative president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, a former chief prosecutor, has no foreign policy experience and has never held elected office.
Elected last week by a margin of less than 1 per cent, Yoon will take charge when he assumes office in May of a country that despite phenomenal economic and democratic progress appears ill at ease with itself and its place in the world.
On the Korean peninsula, a recalcitrant regime in Pyongyang is making strides in its nuclear and missile development programmes, just as a new confrontation between Russia and the west threatens international unity over North Korean sanctions.
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