"In 尹 of the dictatorship, the back of the West"...an analysis presented by the foreign press [now news]

While President Yoon Suk Yeol was praised by the West for his hard-line stance toward North Korea and China, foreign media analyzed that political conflicts and problems within South Korea were overlooked.

Reuters reported on the 19th that Western countries were "stabbed in the back" of President Yoon's Dec. 3 declaration of emergency martial law, which was the result of focusing only on foreign policy.

The news agency said that President Yoon was praised for presenting his vision as a "global central country contributing to freedom, peace and prosperity" by clarifying his position on Taiwan, the South China Sea and Ukraine issues through strengthening cooperation with the West, including the United States and NATO.

However, he pointed out that political discord and media control controversy in South Korea did not receive attention in the process.President Yun

mentioned 'freedom' and 'democracy' 55 times in his speech to the U.S. Congress last year and hosted the Democracy Summit in South Korea, but the cases of opposition lawmakers as 'anti-state forces' and coercive approaches to critical media caused controversy.

Ramon Pacheco Pardo, a professor at King's College in Britain, analyzed that President Yoon's coercive tendency was buried in the West's policy toward China and Russia.

Carl Friedhoff, a U.S. expert on South Korea, pointed out that the incident revealed its significance, saying, "The U.S. interest was only in national security, and the issue of South Korea's internal affairs was considered insignificant."

Former diplomats called President Yoon's emergency martial law an "unacceptable act for a former prosecutor who has considered himself a defender of democracy," but explained why Western countries failed to intervene in South Korea's internal affairs.

"If you speak too early on the internal affairs issue, you will be seen as an interventionist, and if you remain silent, you will be considered cold," said Victor Cha, the CSIS Korea chair.

Analysts say that the incident is the result of a combination of President Yoon's personal disposition and the West's "lirality," and is expected to lead to discussions on the possibility of a change in South Korea's foreign policy line.

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