The opposition parties side by side criticized President Yun Seok-yeol, who returned to Korea after attending the NATO summit on the 1st, for not having achieved diplomatic achievements and embracing a “China risk.”
“President Yoon’s first tour since taking office was his debut on the multilateral diplomatic stage, but his report card was shabby,” said Shin Hyun-young, spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Korea, at a briefing on the same day. .
Spokesperson Shin said, “Participation in the NATO summit was a concern even before departure because there was a strong possibility that it could reverse relations with China and Russia, which play a large part in the Korean economy.”
“The diplomatic position of the Korean government is limited amid competition from the United States and the new Cold War,” he added.
The Justice Party also raised the level of criticism that President Yoon caused tensions between the US and China at the NATO summit. Lee Dong-young, spokesman of the Justice Party, said, “We express serious concern that the Yun Seok-yeol administration at the NATO summit returned with a de facto risk to China as a result of the dangerous ‘unbalanced diplomacy’ that rapidly incorporated into the international order into the new Cold War system and the US-China conflict.” said
“The Yun Seok-yeol administration must firmly adhere to the principle of peaceful resolution through dialogue and diplomacy in the national interest-centered balanced diplomacy that takes a cautious approach to Chinese risks in the face of the expansion of the new Cold War system centered on the US-China conflict, and in response to the North Korean nuclear issue,” said Lee. emphasized.
Shin Min-kyung, reporter at Hankyung.com [email protected]