{"id":72103,"date":"2025-06-04T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/04\/global-trade-chaos-threatens-south-koreas-survival-says-lee-jae-myung-in-inauguration-speech"},"modified":"2025-06-04T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:26:51","slug":"global-trade-chaos-threatens-south-koreas-survival-says-lee-jae-myung-in-inauguration-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72103","title":{"rendered":"Global trade chaos threatens South Korea\u2019s \u2018survival\u2019 says Lee Jae-myung in inauguration speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s new president made the comments as he was inaugurated after winning the election<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s new president, Lee Jae-myung, has warned that rapid changes in the global order and rising protectionism pose a threat to his country\u2019s survival, as he promised to pursue \u201cdialogue and cooperation\u201d with North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rapid changes in the global order such as rising protectionism and supply chain restructuring pose a threat to our very survival,\u201d Lee said in an inaugural address, in an apparent reference to the global trade chaos sparked by US President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/04\/global-trade-chaos-threatens-south-koreas-survival-says-lee-jae-myung-in-inauguration-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s new president made the comments as he was inaugurated after winning the electionSouth Korea\u2019s new president, Lee Jae-myung, has warned that rapid changes in the global order and rising protectionism pose a threat to his country\u2019s survival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3332,40,222,3280,3279,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-jae-myung","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72114,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72103\/revisions\/72114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}