MADRID Jan. 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, highlighted this Monday the response of the South Korean authorities to the political crisis unleashed by the suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol and has expressed his “full confidence” in the new acting president, Choi Sang. Mock.
“What differentiates democracies from other systems is precisely how we respond to challenges, including internal ones,” he said at a press conference in Seoul with South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yul.
Blinken has noted that after Washington’s initial concern after Yoon tried to unilaterally impose martial law in early December, there is now “enormous trust” in South Korean institutions.
“The response that we are seeing, and that we hope to continue seeing, is peaceful and coherent and in accordance with the Constitution and the rule of law,” Blinken said on the same day that the South Korean anti-corruption office has formally asked to extend the arrest order. of Yoon after the failure to execute it.
Blinken has assured that countries like the United States and South Korea “come out stronger” from this type of “challenges” and has stressed that the close relationship between both in terms of security will continue, at a time when Pyongyang has launched the latest hours its first missile of 2025.
“We condemn the launch of missiles by North Korea, one more violation of the multiple resolutions of the UN Security Council,” said Blinken, whose trip to Seoul is one of the last he will make before ending his mandate after Donald Trump’s inauguration in two weeks.
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