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ONN's Statement on Nuclear Escalation
Conflicts involving nuclear-armed States always pose some risk of escalating to nuclear weapons use. During times of heightened tensions and high stakes, it is only through dialogue and communications, based on credible information, that de-escalation and conflict resolution are possible.
South Korea’s New President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol
The conservative People Power Party’s candidate Yoon Suk-yeol narrowly won South Korea’s presidential election on 9 March 2022 with a final voting count of 48.56% of the electorate. His main opponent, Democratic Party’s Lee Jae-myung, received 47.83% of the votes. Lee conceded defeat in the early morning hours of 10 March 2022. The voter turnout was 77.1%, which is only 0.1% less than the turnout in 2017. The official inauguration will be on 10 May 2022.
Events in Ukraine - Potential for Impact on Korean Peninsula
Although the events that have taken place in Ukraine since the 24th of February would seem to have no direct impacts related to potential nuclear escalation on the Korean Peninsula, the ONN Analyst Team has begun consideration of potential unintended or tertiary impacts, as well as consideration of lessons to be learned from the escalation events and the open-source monitoring of this crisis.
