South Korea’s Next President: A Look at the Leading Candidates
Hong said that If I am elected, the first thing I will do is to propose a summit meeting with President Trump on board the Carl Vinson,
Moon said South Korea should learn to "say no to the Americans,"
and he has opposed the deployment of the antimissile system, known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or Thaad.
" Mr. Ahn said recently. that We should never recognize North Korea as a nuclear power,
He has supported the deployment of the antimissile system, which has angered China, but he has also said South Korea should pay for it.
"I will create a government most feared by North Korea, most trusted by the United States and most reliable for China," Mr.
Mr. Hong also recently said that "washing dishes is women’s work." And in a passage from his 2005 memoir
that recently came to light, he describes participating in what appears to be an attempted date rape while in college.