SEOUL: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds talks Monday (Jan 6) in crisis-riven South Korea, seeking to encourage policy stability in the US ally, including in its complicated relationship with Japan.
South Korea 's Acting President Choi Sang-mok greeting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a meeting in Seoul, on Jan 6, 2025. - Reuters
Raucous protests were audible even before dawn from Blinken's hilltop hotel as crowds rallied in the snowy capital either in support or against the conservative president. Blinken is not scheduled to meet Yoon and will hold a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, who is not under threat of impeachment.
South Korea's progressive opposition, which has made Yoon's life miserable from parliament and is increasingly ascendant since the president's power grab, historically has taken a harder line on Japan over the legacy of its brutal 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.
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