Lee Jae-myung, the liberal South Korean presidential candidate, said Monday he would aim to restore communications between Seoul and Pyongyang — including a military hotline severed two years ago — if elected in the country’s June 3 presidential election.
The front-runner in the South Korean election, laid out a number of foreign policy pledges in a Facebook post that included a noticeably softer approach to the nuclear-armed North than his ousted predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol.
“We will pursue a Korean Peninsula where tensions are eased and coexistence is achieved through denuclearization and peace,” Lee, the Democratic Party (DP) candidate, wrote.
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