South Korea’s president faces revolt over US security ties

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Yoon, meanwhile, has signalled he sees no reason to change course. In his first speech after the election, his message was that his policy direction was correct, but he failed to communicate or produce visible results, observes Benjamin Engel, a research professor at Seoul National University. But this is unlikely to win over South Korea’s highly polarised public. While support for the South Korea-US alliance remains overwhelming, there is a strong current of nationalism that often takes on an anti-US tint. The DP and its close allies in the newly elected National Assembly now include open supporters of withdrawing US...