Right... that was our Yoon Jung-min... reporting... on the national tasks... to be tackled...
by the new administration...
AND... as I mentioned earlier...
ON VIEW POINT… today…
we delve into… the tasks…
related to foreign policy and economic stability.
1) Professor Kim… under the goal... of building a country... that contributes to global peace
and prosperity… is the task… of seeking… “complete and verifiable” denuclearization…
on the Korean peninsula.
What are your prospects…
with regard… to this particular plan?
2) Professor Yang… on the economic front…
the transition team has spoken about… “an economy led by people and backed by the government."
How do you interpret these words?
3) Staying with interpretation…
Professor Kim… the head of the transition committee…
Ahn Cheol-soo… also announced…
plans to strengthen…
South Korea’s capability… to counter…
North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
BUT… contrary to expectations… he made no mention… of the expanding...
the presence of U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS… namely THAAD… which had been an earlier
pledge... by President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol.
What are your thoughts?
(Pundits say… the new administration is backtracking…
with China… in mind.
Do you agree?)
4) Professor Yang… according to calculations… by the transition team… an additional 209-TRILLION
WON… will be needed…
over the next five years… to achieve…
the 110 national tasks…that have been set forward.
Mr. Ahn claimed… the money will be raised… by restructuring…
national spending… and… through taxes.
How feasible is this plan?
(Expansion of budget requires parliamentary approval and currently, the Democratic Party
holds the majority.)
5) Professor Kim… beyond the Korean peninsula… and keeping in mind… the dramatic shift…
in international order…
amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine… how can the new government here… play a tangible
part… in promoting…
peace and prosperity…
on the global stage… as it hopes to do?
6) Meanwhile…
Professor Yang… with regard to economic prosperity…
the focus… also appears to be… on green growth.
Now… as pledged…
during his campaign rallies…
President-elect Yoon will resume the nuclear power campaign here… and… even work…
to export… ten nuclear reactors… by 2030.
What…
do you believe… will be… the broader implications… of this initiative… for the local economy?
7) Moving forward…
Professor Kim… on the diplomatic front…
if all goes according to plan…
President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol will meet with his U.S counterpart Joe Biden…
here in Seoul… on May 21st… less than two weeks… in office.
What look to be the implications... of this upcoming summit… as
the South Korean leader launches…
his national blueprint?
8) Professor Yang… the incoming administration will offer cash-based welfare support to those
in need… including parents… of toddlers who are…
11 months or younger.
These families will receive 700-thousand won… a month…
starting next year... and then… one-million won… per month… by 2024.
Do you see... this effort... as countering...
the country’s low birth rate... which ultimately...
looks... to hamper... our economic stability... in the near future?
9) Professor Kim…
Tuesday’s framework… of national tasks… by the transition committee… had a few recurring
catchwords.
They include…
“common sense…
contentment… and creativity.”
What role…
do you suppose…
can these words…
play… in the diplomatic arena… for South Korea?
10) And…
Professor Yang… how do
these words…
“common sense…
contentment… and creativity”… look
to fuel…
South Korea’s economic advances…
under the Yoon administration?
All right