The head of Park Geun-hye’s transition team has declared the three strategic goals of her impending administration’s “trust-based diplomacy”: first, firm national security; second, a sustainable peace; and third, happy reunification.
Kim Yong Jun, who chairs the transition team, announced the plans at a press conference in Seoul today, explaining them in the context of a total of five national goals, 21 national strategies and 140 national tasks, all in pursuit of the new administration’s overall national vision, “a new era of popular happiness and hope.”
“’Popular happiness’ cannot be achieved without firm national security and perpetual peace,” he pointed out. “While building a firm national security system through a determined defense posture and cooperation with our allies on the one hand, we will also put the Korean Peninsula trust process into action so as to construct the basis for movement toward unification.”
“Through ‘trustpolitik’ we will evolve into a responsible model country contributing to happiness globally,” he added.
The transition team is to be formally disbanded on the 22nd at a ceremony that Park is expected to attend. Her presidential inauguration ceremony takes place in Seoul on the 25th.
