Yoon Seok-yeol's presidential election Campaign office | Yoon speaks at Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club (SFCC) (Nov. 12, 2021)
South Korea’s leading conservative candidate for president in next year’s elections said Friday that he does not support an end-of-war declaration between the two Koreas, breaking from the current Moon Jae-in administration under which he previously served as chief prosecutor.
Speaking at a press conference, Yoon Seok-youl said there would be “big side effects” to formally ending the Korean War, arguing that North Korea’s ongoing nuclear arms buildup does not provide a fit environment for any legally binding peace treaty.
South Korea’s leading conservative candidate for president in next year’s elections said Friday that he does not support an end-of-war declaration between the two Koreas, breaking from the current Moon Jae-in administration under which he previously served as chief prosecutor.
Speaking at a press conference, Yoon Seok-youl said there would be “big side effects” to formally ending the Korean War, arguing that North Korea’s ongoing nuclear arms buildup does not provide a fit environment for any legally binding peace treaty.
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Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.