Correspondent in Asia
All dressed in white, Kim Keon-hee confidently set foot on the tarmac at Madrid airport, under the flashes of photographers, firmly holding the hand of her president husband.
South Korea's first lady is attracting the attention of her country's press, but Yoon Suk-yeol's participation in the NATO summit sends a much more substantial message on the strategic front in Asia-Pacific, under the gaze anxious about neighboring China.
The new Korean conservative leader has chosen the Spanish capital for his first trip abroad, in the midst of the conflict in Ukraine, displaying his resolutely Western prism at a time of the merciless showdown between the democracies and Vladimir Putin's Russia, flanked by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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The arrival of Yoon is a significant signal sent to Beijing
”, judge Go Myong Hyun, researcher at the Asan Institute, in Seoul.
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