As president he is likely to revive conservative foreign policies by taking a tougher stance against North Korea centered around a stronger U.S. alliance.
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The race had been marred by negative campaigning plagued by a series of scandals involving corruption, malfeasance and even rumors about wives and a child. "Peace can only be maintained when there is strong deterrence. A war can only be prevented by securing a preemptive strike capability and showing the will to pursue it. As we have seen in Ukraine, a country's national security and peace cannot be protected by paper and ink," he said during a presidential debate last month.
His team of conservative policy specialists will likely advocate a militarily stronger South Korea with heavy investments in national defense."A sense of national security crisis have heightened in South Korea as North Korea's nuclear threat intensifies and also especially after Russia invaded Ukraine. Yoon will make a rational decision," Bong Youngshik of Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies told ABC News.
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