Posted on 03/12/2017 4:37:53 PM PDT by Mariner
SEOUL (Reuters) - The liberal politician expected to succeed disgraced Park Geun-hye as South Korea's next president could significantly soften Seouls stance toward North Korea and possibly delay deployment of a U.S. missile-defense system that has enraged China.
A Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed Park from office after upholding her impeachment over a corruption scandal involving "chaebol", the family-run conglomerates that dominate Asia's fourth-biggest economy, and which could also face reform under a liberal leader.
A presidential election will be held by May 9 and opinion polls suggest South Koreans will opt for change by electing a liberal into the presidential Blue House, ending nine years of conservative rule.
The front-runner is Moon Jae-in, a human rights lawyer who was a top aide to former President Roh Moo-hyun, an advocate of a "sunshine policy" of engagement with North Korea.
Moon has criticized the two former conservative presidents Park and her predecessor, Lee Myung-bak - for derailing the progress made inter-Korean relations during the previous liberal administrations.
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Looks like Korea will unite in our lifetimes!
Then, bye-bye.
Typical liberals, ruin the work for establishment. BrIng the US Troops
home now! No foreign money from the US and no exports to the US.
Trade with N. Korea and China.
Let the South hold a plebiscite. If they decide we go, then we go. That’s easy enough.
If the South Korean liberals turn into surrender monkeys, we should pull our troops and let the South Koreans deal with the consequences.
Bad news.
NORK friendly “college kids” been protesting in the South for decades - eventually that tends to have an effect. I’d wager China has financed a lot of it ala Soros....
We can do all the Korea-defending we need to do from Guam.
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