SEOUL, April 30 (Xinhua) — As South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol wrapped up his week-long go to to the United States on Sunday, there’s rising criticism right here that Seoul is taking the lead in strengthening a brand new Cold War in Northeast Asia and past.
Yoon has determined to make South Korea a loyal companion of the U.S. “Indo-Pacific Strategy” aimed toward containing China, Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper stated in an editorial, questioning whether or not the federal government’s “value-centered diplomacy” will carry tangible advantages to the nation.
Shin Jin-wook, professor of sociology at Chung-Ang University, stated in a Hankyoreh newspaper column that South Korea grew to become a “new Cold War facilitator” for politics on the peninsula, in East Asia and even the world.
Shin stated the Yoon authorities was taking the lead in strengthening and finishing a brand new Cold War, moderately than searching for to de-escalate tensions on the peninsula.
The Yoon administration gave all the things the U.S. and Japanese hardliners wished, turning South Korea right into a weak nation with none management, participation, or autonomy, in line with the column.
The Hankyoreh warned in one other article that if the United States deploys extra “strategic assets,” together with nuclear-capable submarines, to the Korean Peninsula, tensions on the peninsula and in Northeast Asia are feared to rise.