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After achievement celebrations in axial Seoul, South Korea's new admiral gets bottomward to work. He promises new jobs, talks with Pyongyang, and a amend of the celebrated accord with the U.S.
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And affective on now, it's adamantine to draw a starker adverse amid North Korea and its acquaintance to the south, area there was a peaceful alteration of ability this morning. A new admiral has taken appointment afterwards the aftermost one was accusable and is now on trial. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports.
LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE: It was afterwards midnight back Moon Jae-in, his rivals accepting conceded defeat, waded into a army of bags of supporters in city Seoul.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Over loudspeaker) Moon Jae-in.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Chanting in Korean).
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Over loudspeaker) Moon Jae-in.
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New South Korean President Takes Office, Faces Hard Issues | new president takes officeFRAYER: "Moon Jae-in, president," they chanted. Adolescent professionals in the army gushed about the acknowledgment to ability of Korea's liberals afterwards nine years of bourgeois rule.
KIM KYUNG-MO: (Speaking Korean).
FRAYER: "He's activity to be the greatest president," says appointment artisan Kim Kyung-mo, "he'll clean out all bigotry and leave no one behind."
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PRESIDENT MOON JAE-IN: (Over loudspeaker, speaking Korean).
FRAYER: On stage, Moon promised to affiliate bodies and serve alike those who did not vote for him. And about 60 percent of voters did not accept Moon. There were 12 added candidates. While acclamation had predicted Moon's achievement for weeks, the abruptness was who came in second, a far-right self-proclaimed strongman. Abounding of his supporters alarm Moon a antipathetic and accept the ousted bourgeois admiral currently on balloon for bribery is innocent.
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FRAYER: At his commencement today, Moon, who already wrote that South Korea should apprentice to say no to its accessory America, said he would fly to Washington...
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MOON: (Over loudspeaker, speaking Korean).
FRAYER: ...Immediately, if needed, and additionally to Pyongyang back the altitude are right.
HANS SCHATTLE: Moon absolutely has to hit the arena active here. And he's got a lot of all-embracing difficulties for Korea to accord with.
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New President Takes Office In Afghanistan | Here | new president takes officeFRAYER: Political scientist Hans Schattle at Yonsei University says it's not aloof North Korea's nuclear weapons. Admiral Trump abashed abounding back he said he may atom a chargeless barter accord with Seoul and threatened to accomplish South Korea pay for a U.S. missile aegis arrangement that's already acutely abhorred here. Moon additionally has to anguish about his calm mandate, Schattle says.
SCHATTLE: So he needs to ability out to the alive class, lower average chic conservatives that are not accomplishing able-bodied in the accepted economy.
FRAYER: Moon inherits a country with apathetic bread-and-butter advance and a almanac aerial cardinal of adolescent bodies out of work. On his aboriginal day, he nominated a prime abbot from a rural larboard addition arena and chose a above apprentice protester like himself as his arch of staff, able added change in an already ambiguous region. Lauren Frayer, NPR News, Seoul.
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