South Korea's presidential candidate Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party shakes hands with a supporter as she leaves her home to head to her office in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT
Dictator father looms over SKorea's new president
South Korea's presidential candidate Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party shakes hands with a supporter as she leaves her home to head to her office in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT
By FOSTER KLUG
Associated Press /
December 19, 2012
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Her father was a staunch anti-communist, but Park has shown a willingness to work with North Korea. She met privately with former leader Kim Jong Il during a visit to Pyongyang in 2002 and has vowed to ease Lee’s hard-line policy to Pyongyang.
That might be difficult, however, with a belligerent Pyongyang fresh off the surprising success of a rocket launch that the South, the United States and others say was a cover for testing long-range missile technology. North Korea’s state media has repeatedly said that her presidential ambitions are an attempt to bring back her father’s dictatorship.
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Associated Press writers Sam Kim and Youkyung Lee contributed to this report. Follow Klug on Twitter: (at)APklug.
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