South Korean President Yoon's first year in office today The challenge of how to gain public support

South Korean President Yoon Sung-yeol will be in office for one year in 10 days. While emphasizing achievements in diplomacy, including improving relations with Japan, the approval rating has been sluggish, and the issue for the administration is how to gain the approval of public opinion.

South Korean President Yoon Seong-nyeol, who inaugurated his first conservative government in five years on May 5 last year, is promoting policy changes from the reforms of the former administration of progressive President Moon Jae-in, including reforms in the labor and education fields and the withdrawal of the "nuclear phase-out."

In terms of diplomacy, we are working to strengthen "extended deterrence" to protect our allies with deterrence, including the nuclear forces of our ally, and in relation to Japan, which was called "the worst in the postwar era" under the previous administration, we are showing various movements, such as resuming "shuttle diplomacy" between the leaders.

At the Cabinet meeting on the 10th, President Yoon emphasized the achievements, saying, "Looking back at this time one year ago, there is no field where we have achieved as much significant changes as diplomacy and security."

On the other hand, with regard to domestic reforms, the necessary revisions to the law have not progressed due to the fierce conflict with the largest progressive opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, which holds a majority of seats in the Diet.

Under these circumstances, according to the latest opinion poll released on May 5, the approval rating of the administration is 9%, and the institution that conducted the survey said that the approval rating in the first year of his inauguration is the second lowest since the 1s, when records were kept, and the issue for the administration is how to gain the approval of public opinion.

Yoon administration publishes results so far on video posting site

On the 1th, one year after its inauguration, the Yoon Sung-nyeol administration released a video summarizing its achievements so far on a video posting site.

The two-minute video introduces our efforts to date under five keywords: security, fairness, national interests, the future, and the dignity of the country.

In the area of security, he emphasizes the differences from the previous Moon Jae-in administration, which emphasized relations with North Korea, stating that "we are building a true peace, not a false peace," using footage of the trilateral summit meeting with Japan and the United States.

In addition, he introduced his visit to a nuclear power plant built with Korean technology in the UAE = United Arab Emirates in January, and appealed the difference between the Moon administration and the Moon administration, which advocated "nuclear phase-out" as "protecting South Korea's national interests."

On the other hand, President Yoon is not expected to hold press conferences in his first year in office, which past presidents have done, and some media have criticized him, saying, "He will avoid press conferences that may ask questions that he does not want to ask, and will directly appeal to the public about his achievements.

North Korea announces 'indictment' and condemns it

Coinciding with the one-year anniversary of President Yun Sung-nyeol's inauguration, North Korea issued a "letter of indictment" on the website of the Committee for Peace and Unification of the Fatherland, a liaison organization with South Korea, on the 1th, accusing the situation on the Korean Peninsula of worsening by strengthening relations with the United States.

In it, he justified his own nuclear and missile development by stating that the joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea held after the inauguration of the Yoon administration were "blatant declarations of war, and without Japan's strong war deterrent, wars would have already occurred many times."

He also condemned President Yoon by name, claiming that the U.S.-South Korea summit meeting last month was "the product of a diabolical hostile policy that reflects aggressive intentions."

North Korea has intensified its criticism of the Yoon administration, which is strengthening deterrence against North Korea in cooperation with the United States and Japan, and has made clear its stance of further promoting nuclear and missile development.