Yoon Suk-yeol: who is South Korea's new tough-talking president
Yoon Suk-yeol, a former prosecutor and now South Korea’s next president, said he will teach Kim Jong-un to behave, obtain better security commitments from America and restore conservative rule in the country. Mr Yoon, 61, who served as his predecessor’s prosecutor general, says he is done with being “subservient” after the last five years of engagement with Pyongyang that included reduced joint US military drills, brokering high-level summits with Donald Trump and joint economic engagement. Instead, he calls the North Korean leader a “rude boy” and told the people of the south that, “if you give me a chance, I will teach him some manners” and make him “snap out of it”. To back up his rhetoric, he has threatened pre-emptive strikes on the north if needed — a move his rivals called provocative and analysts warn would be unrealistic and dangerous. Mr Yoon, who also vowed to stand up to China, has accused the government of his predecessor, Moon Jae-in, of undermining its decades-long ...