STANDING OFFER: Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s new president, supports economic engagement with the North, which could put him in conlict with Trump.
FOR DONALD TRUMP, iguring out a way to halt North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs just got more complicated. On May 9, South Korea elected Moon Jae-in, a left-leaning human rights lawyer, as its new president.
Trump has been leaning on countries in the region to put more economic pressure on Kim Jong Un’s regime, among other things, as a way of getting the North to discuss a freeze of its weapons program.