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The candidates Lee, the leader, and his opponent Kim Clash in the first of three television debates.
The two leading presidential candidates in South Korea, Lee Jae-Myung and Kim Moon-Soo, held the first of three television debates when the race intensified to replace former President Yoon Suk-Yeol, who was removed in April for his controversial step to explain the law at the end of last year.
Yoon’s fall inspired political turbulence in the nation, and a quick choice is scheduled for June 3.
During the heated debate on Sunday, Lee is who is The candidate of the opposition Democratic Party and the leaders of the race were criticized that he was too friendly from his opponents to China, who quoted his comments that South Korea did not have to be involved in China-Taiwan disputes.
But Lee, who considers pragmatism as the key to his foreign policy, said the country should “not” go into its alliance with traditional allies in the United States and demanded the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
He added that the administration of China and Russia was important while he found that security cooperation with the USA and Japan was necessary.
Lee also campaigned to put South Korea’s interests in response to US tariffs, more investments in artificial intelligence (AI), protection for union union workers and a four and a half day working week in the first place.
It was not necessary that Seoul achieved a trade agreement with Washington, said Lee during the two -hour debate.
South Korea has started trade talks with the USA and is looking for a waiver of the 25 percent tariffs that US President Donald Trump hit the country in April. After that, Seoul was one of the first countries in which they were talks with Washington.
“I think we should prepare well for this situation,” added Lee and also argues that South Korea has to promote high-tech and renewable energy industries in order to overcome low economic growth.
“We will concentrate on developing so -called sovereign AI so that our people like an electronic calculator can use something like Chatgpt for free,” he said.
Kim, Conservative People Power Party, Schwor, to create jobs and promote companies.
Kim has also committed to create a government agency that is dedicated to innovative regulations and invests more than five percent of the budget in research and development.
The fourth largest economy in Asia came together in the first quarter, as exports and consumption in the reasoning of the aggressive tariffs and political turbulence in Washington at home.
Lee has a lead with 51 percent support in the Gallup Korea survey published on Friday, with Kim left far behind 29 percent.
Lee previously called for a constitutional reform to allow a four-year, two-term presidency and a two-round system for presidential elections through a referendum. The South Korean presidents currently serve a single five -year period.
He also vowed to contain the president’s right to war law and to take into account the declaration responsible for the declaration of December 3.
At the time, former President Yoon claimed that he declared war law that anti -state and North Korean armed forces had infiltrated the government. But high-ranking military and police officers who were sent to close the country’s National Assembly have stated that he ordered them to capture competing politicians and to prevent the assembly from raising their military command.