Conservative South Korean President Says ‘Freedom’ 18 Times in U.N. Speech

Breitbart ^ | 09/20/2022 | Frances Martel

[DFG]

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, one of the few conservatives to win a presidency anywhere in the world this year, urged the United Nations in his speech on Tuesday to “stand together in solidarity” and defend freedom from wherever a threat may arise.

Yoon’s remarks, his first address to the annual General Assembly debate, echoed much of what he told Koreans in his inauguration speech in May. On that occasion, he used the word “freedom” 35 times; to the United Nations, he said “freedom” a mere 18 times, according to the organization’s official English-language transcript.

Unlike many other heads of state who address the forum, Yoon abstained from describing any particular international crisis or bringing up particular grievances. Yoon notably did not mention the 70-year-old war with North Korea and growing nuclear tensions with the country, tensions that appeared to worsen when Yoon offered an economic cooperation plan and communist dictator Kim Jong-un’s sister told him to “shut his mouth.”

“When freedom of any individual in a nation comes under threat, members of the community must join hands to remove the threat and defend freedom,” Yoon said. “Likewise, when freedom of any citizen or nation in the global community is in peril, it is the community of nations that must stand together in solidarity to defend that freedom.”

[The Klingon]

Should have been 17 times

[BenLurkin]

when freedom of any citizen or nation in the global community is in peril...

The entire planet is in peril, sir. Every last one of us!

[DannyTN]

Poland just signed a $6 billion dollar arms deal with S. Korea this week. Jets and I’m not sure what else.

[C210N]

Yep, i agree with q, er, i mean u

[17th Miss Regt]

Freedom? 18 times? OMG, what a fascist!

[Gay State Conservative]

Since having a Korean American girlfriend (and recently visited the ROK) I've learned a fair amount about the country. Korea has been under almost constant oppression and/or war for 100+ years...all of it courtesy of one,or another,of their bigger,more powerful,neighbors. Even today the people of northern Korea are being horribly oppressed...and even starved...by the Red Chinese.

Who can blame their President for uttering such a revolutionary word?

[dfwgator]

Poles and Koreans have a lot in common in that area.

[Gay State Conservative]

Very true. Canadians should thank their lucky stars that they haven't suffered the same hardships that some countries that share a border with bigger,more powerful neighbors have experienced.

[dsrtsage]

He can’t say stuff like freedom. He will lose his minority card and be called a white supremacist.

[buwaya]

Tanks, the Korean “Black Panther” K2, 180 for delivery this year, ultimately 1000+, with Polish assemby and components starting next year I think.
SP howitzers the K9 “Thunder”. 600 or so, but 48 ASAP this year.