Reuters
Yoon of Analysis-S.Korea uses Biden summit as springboard for global agenda as China looms
South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, this weekend used a largely successful summit with US President Joe Biden to lay the groundwork for his goal of enabling South Korea to play a more active role in the world. . Yoon, inaugurated on May 10, has said his main foreign policy goal will be to make South Korea a “global pivot” with a focus on promoting freedom, peace and prosperity based on its liberal-democratic democracy. values and collaboration. That aligns closely with Biden’s call for “like-minded” democracies with shared values to work together, allowing the pair to commit to a remarkably long list of areas of cooperation, raising the bar on pledges, but also underscoring how Yoon’s closer ties to the US sees it as its path to global engagement.
