The Yoon Suk-yeol administration's North Korea Policy: Bipartisan North Korea Policy and Responses to North Korean Nuclear Programs

Cheong Seong-Chang

(softpower@sejong.org)

Director of the Center for North Korean Studies, 

the Sejong Institute

English Abstract

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol should form a "government of national unity" regarding his North Korea policy. It is desirable to appoint a reasonable centrist or progressive expert as the Minister of Unification to cooperate with the opposition parties and pursue a bipartisan policy like the Roh Tae-woo administration in the past. It is also necessary to form a strategic command that can integrate South Korea's missile capabilities and reconnaissance assets, a system that can effectively cope with North Korea's advanced nuclear and missile capabilities. Also, the Yoon Suk-yeol administration should have the public's trust in the U.S. "extended deterrence" by detailing the contents of extended deterrence through close consultations with the U.S.