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world news Diasabra 6 November 2021

Ex-prosecutor in SKorea wins opposition presidential ticket

(AP) — South Korea’s ends in May. investigations followed due,
conservative former top fair procedures.
prosecutor, who has called In the opposition People
for a stronger U.S. secu- Power Party’s convention on The infighting triggered a
rity guarantee to neutral- Friday, party authorities an- domestic political firestorm,
ize North Korean nuclear nounced that Yoon garnered undermined Moon’s anti-
threats, won the main 47.8% of the votes cast by corruption drive and boosted
opposition party’s hotly party members and general Yoon’s popularity. He even-
contested nomination for citizens, beating his main tually resigned the top pros-
next March’s presidential rival Hong Joon-pyo with ecutor’s post in March and
election on Friday. 41.5% and two other com- joined the People Power Par-
petitors. ty in July.
Recent opinion surveys
showed Yoon Suk Yeol would “The government must be Yoon has since pledged to
be locked in a tight race with very frightened and feeling strive to end liberal rule, ac-
Lee Jae-myung, the outspo- bitter pains about my victory cusing the Moon govern-
ken liberal ruling party candi- at the party primary,” Yoon ment of “trampling on fair- But in September, Yoon said link it to progress in Pyong-
date, who has vowed to take said in an acceptance speech. ness and justice” while being if elected he would talk with yang’s steps toward denucle-
an appeasement policy on “I’ll surely achieve a shift in “corrupt” and “anachronis- Washington to formulate arization, a policy that North
North Korea and adopt prag- power ... I’ll surely rebuild a tic.” procedures on the deploy- Korea won’t welcome.
matic diplomacy between new Republic of Korea.” ment of U.S. nuclear weap-
Washington and Beijing. Yoon’s opponents have at- ons in case of emergency and How to deal with North
Yoon, 60, has spent most of tacked him over a lack of conduct related joint training Korea has long sharply split
The close race between the his professional career as a expertise on security and to boost the reliability of the South Koreans. Conserva-
two candidates will likely prosecutor but is a novice in other major issues. Yoon said U.S. “nuclear umbrella” se- tives have called for tougher
further intensify severe do- party politics. Friday he would select com- curity commitment offered sanctions and pressures in
mestic polarization in South petent experts regardless of to allies. close coordination with the
Korea at a time when it faces He was also previously their political lines and let United States to get North
growing North Korean nu- Moon’s prosecutor gen- them handle key affairs. But he later suggested he Korea to give up its nuclear
clear threats, an intense U.S.- eral, who led the president’s would oppose the U.S. rein- ambitions. But liberals favor
China rivalry and various contentious anti-corruption “Yoon himself does not have stalling tactical nuclear weap- a negotiated resolution of the
economic woes. campaign that largely fo- a foreign policy record, but ons in South Korea, which nuclear issue while often pri-
cused on conservatives in- he has a deep pool of expe- it withdrew in the 1990s, oritizing improved ties with
A victory for Yoon could lead cluding those aligned with rienced advisers. The ques- because that would deprive North Korea over South Ko-
to South Korea taking steps the People Power Party. But tion is whether he will listen Seoul of its legitimacy in call- rea’s U.S. alliance.
to bolster its military alliance Yoon was later embroiled in to and adjudicate different ing for North Korean denu-
with the United States while high-profile political strife opinions among them,” said clearization. He said it would Moon’s government once
its ties with North Korea and with Moon’s allies after some Leif-Eric Easley, a professor be “more realistic” to ask brokered high-profile nucle-
China may sour. If elected, of his investigations targeted at Ewha University in Seoul. Washington to send subma- ar diplomacy between Wash-
Lee would push for greater Moon associates. rines carrying nuclear mis- ington and Pyongyang, but
ties with North Korea but he In his Friday speech, Yoon siles around the Korean Pen- their talks collapsed in early
may not be able to convince Moon’s supporters argued said he would push for insula as deterrence against 2019 because they differed
the country to abandon its Yoon’s investigations were North Korea’s denucleariza- potential aggression from over how much sanctions re-
nuclear program, possibly politically motivated to el- tion more effectively though North Korea. lief the United States should
sharing the legacy of his party evate his own political stand- coordination with the in- provide to North Korea in
colleague and dovish cur- ing or disrupt Moon’s push to ternational community, but Yoon has also said he would return for dismantling its
rent President Moon Jae-in, reform the prosecution. Yoon didn’t elaborate. prepare for economic coop- main nuclear complex, a lim-
whose single five-year term denied such views, saying his eration with North Korea but ited disarmament measure.

2 dead in dramatic shootout near upscale Mexican resorts

(AP) — A commando of parently arrived at the beach with the Gulf cartel. ... putting the image of the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun,
drug gang gunmen on in front of the Azul Beach state at grave risk.” wrote in his Twitter account
Thursday stormed ashore Resort and the Hyatt Ziva Montes de Oca said one of that “Guests are telling me
at a beach on Mexico’s Riviera Cancun earlier in the the men targeted in the at- The shootings were the latest they were playing volley-
resort-studded Caribbean day, claiming it was now their tack fled into one of the ho- chapter in drug gang violence ball on the beach, gunman
coast in front of luxury territory. tels before dying. The other that has sullied the reputation approached firing gun. Ev-
hotels and executed two was killed on the beach. He of Mexico’s Caribbean coast eryone ran from beach and
drug dealers from a rival “About 15 people arrived on also said one person suffered as a once-tranquil oasis. swimming pools. Staff hus-
gang. the beach to assassinate two non-life-threatening injuries tled us into hidden rooms
men who had showed up in the attack, but authorities Guests at the Hyatt Ziva Riv- behind the kitchens.”
The dramatic shooting attack saying they were the new could not determine whether iera Cancun posted videos
sent tourists scrambling for dealers in the area,” the head that person was a hotel em- and photos of tourists hiding Sington tweeted “I’ve never
cover at the resort of Puerto prosecutor of Quintana Roo ployee or a guest because or nervously milling in the been so scared, literally shak-
Morelos, just south of Can- state, Oscar Montes de Oca, they were still undergoing lobby and hallways of hotels ing,” before adding “I’m fine
cun. told the Radio Formula sta- medical treatment. during the incident. now, barricaded in my hotel
tion. room for the night, just try-
The two suspected drug deal- Gov. Carlos Joaquin said the Guests at the nearby Azul ing to decompress.”
ers killed Thursday had ap- Montes de Oca’s office said commando wore ski masks Beach Resort also posted
earlier in a statement that and arrived by boat at the videos of people taking shel- Rival cartels often kill an-
“there was a clash between beach. Montes de Oca said ter or gathering in the lobby. other gang’s street-level
rival groups of drug dealers they fled in a boat after the An employee who answered dealers in Mexico to elimi-
on a beach” near the hotels. attack. the phone at the hotel said nate competition and ensure
Several cartels are fighting for the shooting occurred on the their drugs are sold first. It is
the area’s lucrative retail drug Joaquin called the attack “a beach near the facility. not the first time that tour-
trade, including the Jalisco serious blow to the develop- ists have been caught in the
cartel and the a gang allied ment and security of the state Mike Sington, a guest at the crossfire of such battles.