In the year of 2012,South Korea completed its election of 19th Congress member,who hold the dominant position in the congress as conservatives,and the 18th president.Park Geun-hye got a narrow victory as New Frontier Party representative and became the first female president in history of South Korean constitutional government.In the field of diplomacy,Lee Myung-bak administration compels their foreign policy of security,trade and global strategies.The international conferences such as Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul and the World Exposition in Yeosu shows off the international standing of South Korea.However,the inter-Korean relation was back against the wall with highly variable issues.The relaxative tendency from 2011 was not continued but fell into a dead state because of various factors.Such emergencies as rocket launching and Kwongmyongsong-3 by North Korea also did a significant impact to situation of the Korean Peninsula.The rate of economic growth is still in a slowdown.There was a 2% increase in RGDP than 2011,witch is the lowest growth rate since 2009.At the beginning of 2012,Lee Myung-bak visited China,the leaders of both countries proposed to develop the strategic partnership of China and South Korea by taking 2012,the year of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries,as a new start.They officially started the negotiation of FTA and cooperated in solving North Korea nuclear issue.
In the year of 2013,South Korea will meet the new government with Park Geun-hye as president.Her election program can be analyzed as the following:the new government will do more on aspects of improving people's livelihood and carrying out economic democracy.With the solution of European debt crisis,there will be a improvement or even sustained recovery of US and China,so the new government will do its best to promote economic development with the expected result that the economic growth in 2013 will reach 2.8%.In the field of diplomacy,she will continue to consolidate South Korea-US alliance while build cooperation strategy with neighbour countries and do global diplomacy worldwide.Both South Korea and China devote themselves to promote their glorious relation in the next two decades.To North Korea,the new government will keep the constraining force as well as a mutual trust politics.
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