North Korean state media reported the election of the South’s new left-leaning president Moon Jae-in after a two-day delay, but at unusual length….
North Korean state media reported of the South’s new left-leaning president Moon Jae-in after a two-day delay, but at unusual length. The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) put out a four-sentence report late on Thursday on the victory of Moon, who called for dialogue, along with sanctions and pressure, to curb the North’s nuclear ambitions. “Mun Jae-in … was elected to be the 19th-term ‘president’ with 41 per cent voting rate, ” it said, using the McCune-Reischauer transliteration system that is standard in North Korea. That contrasted with its one-sentence Korean-language report of the election of Moon’s conservative predecessor Park Geun-hye in 2012, which did not mention her name or her support.
