Yoon's "Audacious Initiative"
Why would anyone decide to label a diplomatic initiative as the “Audacious Initiative”? What on earth were they thinking???
The “Audacious Initiative” - South Korea’s key policy platform to address the plethora of problems that is North Korea. You can now pick up your booklet on the Audacious Initiative at South Korea’s Ministry of Unification (Korean) and read about it at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) (English).
The booklet details the initiative’s genesis in Yoon Suk Yeol’s 15 August 2022 Liberation Day speech. It details the initiative’s key features, including the aim to:
Create a strategic environment that leaves North Korea no choice but to return to denuclearization talks;
Work towards a comprehensive agreement on an overall roadmap of the denuclearization process;
Be ready to provide a set of corresponding measures encompassing political, economic and military aspects, once North Korea embarks on the path of substantive denuclearization; and even…
Provide diplomatic assistance to normalize US-DPRK bilateral relations and start discussions on conventional disarmament.
The policies and the plans d…