South Korean Elections 2017

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ew-president-on-tuesday-heres-what-to-expect/

On Tuesday, South Koreans will choose a new president to replace the one they impeached.

Weeks of massive candlelight demonstrations helped prompt the National Assembly to impeach former president Park Geun-hye in December for leaking government secrets to her confidante, bribery, abuse of power and coercion. The Constitutional Court confirmed the impeachment in March, and Park’s trial began last week.

It’s hard to overstate the significance of this election. The next leader will fill an unprecedented power vacuum and oversee major reforms, possibly including constitutional revision to curtail the president’s powers.
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Hopefully they get someone strong enough to stand up to America and ensure some peace in the region.
 
theratman said:
They need America otherwise their Northern neighbours would curb stomp em.
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Unfortunately the "engagement" with North Korea candidate will win due to the previous president (a conservative) being involved in corruption scandals.

To be clear, there’s never a good time for a crisis on the Korean peninsula. But this is an especially tricky time, as South Korea gears up for its presidential election on May 9. Unsurprisingly, North Korea policy is one of the major fault lines in South Korean politics: The country’s conservatives are more hawkish towards the North, its liberals more dovish. Liberals tend to subscribe to former president Kim Dae Jung’s “Sunshine Policy”—named for the Aesop’s fable about the wind and the sun trying to take off a traveler’s cloak—which advocates warm engagement with North Korea. The conservative counterpart is former president Lee Myung Bak’s “Massive Retaliation,” which promises a disproportionate, devastating response to any provocation from the North.

Since late 1990s, the liberals and conservatives have traded power in South Korea, causing the country’s policy on North Korea to swing back and forth from dovish to hawkish. Outgoing, disgraced President Park Geun Hye appeared to blend the two, outlining her own brand of “Trustpolitik” in her then-acclaimed Dresden Address delivered in 2014. Of course, the world now knows there was little substance behind Park’s bold pronouncement; Choi Soon Sil, a woman with only a high-school education and no official position in the government, was the one marking up Park’s speech. This revelation, along with Park’s bizarre extortion of South Korea’s major corporations in order to keep Choi’s slush fund flush, led to the president’s impeachment and removal.

Park’s impeachment has, in turn, led to a liberal surge in South Korean politics, as her scandal tainted her fellow conservatives. Liberal Moon Jae In of the Democratic Party, who narrowly lost the 2012 presidential election to Park, is leading the latest polls with an average level of support in the low-40s. Center-left Ahn Cheol Soo of the People’s Party and conservative Hong Joon Pyo of the Liberty Korea Party trail Moon in a virtual tie of around 18 percent support each. In short, barring a dramatic turn of events in the coming days, Moon Jae In will likely become the next president of the Republic of Korea.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...south-korea-kim-jong-un-nuclear-trump/524910/
 
Pitbull said:
Ninja, you win the internet.

I mean really now?

:D :D :D
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Wish I did. I thought the previous prez was another lefty liberal until I read the article

The final round of polls shows the progressive Democratic Party’s Moon Jae-in leading with about 40 percent support. A notable recent shift is the narrowing gap between conservative Hong Joon-pyo and centrist Ahn Cheol-soo, in Hong’s favor. The other two candidates trail with single-digit support.

Voters appear less committed to candidates than they were in the 2012 presidential election. More than one-quarter of voters said they might switch allegiance to another candidate.

But Moon has led polls since Park’s scandal in fall 2016 tarnished and splintered the conservative camp. Ahn has struggled to retain support from conservative voters, who seem to be consolidating around Hong — the candidate South Koreans have labeled “Hong-Trump” for his outspoken rhetoric.
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#MSKGA
 
Because half of the population of North Korea is in the army and they have a nuclear weapon which South Korea cannot have according to the non proliferation treaties...
 
f2wohf said:
Because half of the population of North Korea is in the army and they have a nuclear weapon which South Korea cannot have according to the non proliferation treaties...
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Well there's your problem.

And size isn't everything. A highly-trained, highly resourced, organised army could rek a much larger poor army with out-dated gear.
 
Knyro said:
Well there's your problem.

And size isn't everything. A highly-trained, highly resourced, organised army could rek a much larger poor army with out-dated gear.
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Millions of them ? It then becomes a guerilla war such as Iraq, which is the worst nightmare of every country.

According to you every country should be able to get nuclear then ?
 
f2wohf said:
Millions of them ? It then becomes a guerilla war such as Iraq, which is the worst nightmare of every country.

According to you every country should be able to get nuclear then ?
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And how does having the US on their side change that? Besides the possibility of nuking the shyte out of Kim Jon Un if he steps out of line?

Nice strawman.

Unhappy438 said:
Non proliferation is not a problem, this world needs less nukes not more.
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And I should be able to go to sleep with my front door unlocked and my windows open.

You can either have ideal peace. Or peace by nuclear stalemate. If you glass me, I glass you. So it's in both our interests not to do any nuking.

Sad but true IMO.
 
South Korea president winner Moon vows to unify bruised country

Liberal politician Moon Jae-in decisively won South Korea's presidential election on Tuesday, television networks declared, an expected victory ending nearly a decade of conservative rule and bringing a more conciliatory approach toward North Korea.

Moon's victory will end months of political turmoil that led to parliament's impeachment of conservative former President Park Geun-hye over an extensive corruption scandal, which a court upheld in March. Park became the first democratically elected leader in South Korea to be removed from office, triggering a snap election to choose her successor.

Climbing a temporary stage set up in the main square in downtown Seoul, a beaming Moon surrounded by his Democratic Party leaders, vowed to usher in a new era for a country badly bruised by the scandal in a midnight victory speech.

"I will make a just, united country," he told a crowd gathered to see the former human rights lawyer who entered politics just five years ago. "I will be a president who also serves all the people who did not support me."
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