Ex-military ruler’s daughter voted new leader of South Korea
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | December 20, 2012 19:58
Park Geun-hye, the daughter of a former military ruler became the South Korea’s first female leader Wednesday, saying she would work to heal a divided society.
The 60-year old conservative, will return to the presidential palace in Seoul where she served as her father’s first lady in the 1970s, after her mother was assassinated by a North Korean-backed gunman.
News agency Yonhap said the result could have profound impacts on the country’s foreign policy, particularly with regard to its Communist neighbor, North Korea.
Park has said she would negotiate with Kim Jong-un, the youthful leader of North Korea who recently celebrated a year in office, but wants the South’s isolated and impoverished neighbor to give up its nuclear weapons program as a precondition for aid, something Pyongyang has refused to do.
With more than 88 percent of votes in the country’s presidential election counted, Park led with 51.6 percent to 48 percent for her left-wing challenger, human rights lawyer Moon Jae-in, giving her an unassailable lead that forced Moon to concede.
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