According to a White House statement, Biden congratulated Yoon on the election and emphasized the U.S. commitment to the defense of South Korea.
Moon, the departing South Korean president, has pushed hard to broker denuclearization deals between Pyongyang and Washington and once helped arrange a summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and then-U.S. President Donald Trump in 2018. But the U.S.-North Korea diplomacy eventually collapsed due to disputes over U.S.-led sanctions on the North.
Yoon, who ran on the ticket of the main opposition People Power Party, had previously served as Moon’s prosecutor general. But he left the Moon government and joined the opposition last year after high-profile infighting over his investigations on some of Moon’s allies. They said Yoon’s hard-line stance on North Korea would unnecessarily provoke the North, and picking a side between Washington and Beijing would pose greater security threats to Seoul. Yoon has accused the Moon administration of being “submissive” to Pyongyang and Beijing at the expense of Seoul’s 70-year alliance with Washington.
On domestic agendas, Yoon faces urgent tasks to suppress a record-breaking COVID-19 surge, ease widening economic inequalities and runaway house prices and heal a nation sharply split along regional antagonism, ideologies, age and gender.
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