... are a number of reasons. Firstly, this is the first time that a prime minister has handed in their notice after only two months in office. Secondly, it is the first time that it has been done without the consent of the country’s president, as Park Geun-hye is currently on an official visit to Latin America and will only return to Seoul on April 27, 2015. And it seems that she does not yet have a replacement for Lee Wan-koo. Observers are even speculating that the opposition’s shadow ...
... of a South Korean corvette Cheonan in March 2010, over which southerners accused the DPRK (the evidence to substantiate this was insufficient.)
Are There Changes in the Offing?
In principle, the end of the five-year term of Lee Myung-bak, so hated by North Koreans, provided a chance for the pendulum to swing back to a relaxing of tensions. After all, new president Park Geun-hye, the daughter of “the father of the South Korean miracle” Park Chung-hee, actually recognized the mistakes of her predecessor and announced the beginning of Trust Policy toward the North.
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New president Park Geun-hye,...
