S. Korea's new president to teach 'rude boy' Kim Jong-un some manners


SEOUL (AFP): Threatening a pre-emptive strike, swiftly responding to missile tests, and telling "rude boy" leader Kim Jong-un to behave: South Korea's next president looks set to get tough on the nuclear-armed North, analysts say.

For the last five years Seoul has pursued a policy of engagement with Pyongyang, brokering high-level summits between Kim and then-US president Donald Trump while reducing joint US military drills the North sees as provocative.

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