Yoon Suk-yeol is sworn in as South Korean president in a huge ceremony at Seoul's National Assembly, taking office at a time of high tensions with the nuclear-armed North Korea
Yoon Suk-yeol calls for"complete denuclearisation" of North Korea, saying in his first speech as president that Pyongyang's weapons programmes were a threat to global security.
"I solemnly swear before the people that I will faithfully perform the duties of the president," said Yoon, a hawkish conservative, on Tuesday. Yoon, 61, takes office at a time of high tensions on the Korean peninsula, with an increasingly belligerent North Korea conducting a record 15 weapons tests since January, including two launches last week.
Under Moon, Seoul pursued a policy of engagement with North Korea, brokering summits between Kim Jong-un and then-US president Donald Trump. But talks collapsed in 2019 and diplomacy has stalled since.Moon remains personally popular, but public frustration with his administration helped sweep his opponent Yoon to power.
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