SOUTH Korea’s president Lee Jae-myung vowed to reach out to the nuclear-armed North and heal wounds’ as he took office Wednesday, after winning a snap election triggered by his predecessor’s disastrous martial law declaration.
South Korea’s new centre-left leader also warned that rising protectionism and supply chain restructuring pose an existential threat to Asia’s export-dependent fourth-largest economy, which has been buffeted by the global trade chaos sparked by US president Donald Trump.
Lee scored a thumping victory over conservative Kim Moon-soo of the disgraced ex-president’s former party.
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