SEOUL, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Five major South Korean presidential candidates had heated discussions Thursday in the first TV debate, with less than a month left before an early presidential election.
The presidential by-election is scheduled for May 9 as former President Park Geun-hye was impeached on March 10 and arrested three weeks later over corruption allegations. The three-week election campaign period is to kick off next week.
The first debate was centered on security issues as geopolitical risks escalated following the news reports that the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and its accompanying battleships re-routed and headed to the Korean Peninsula.
The rare re-routing of the U.S. super carrier boosted worry here about a possible U.S. airstrike on nuclear facilities of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
All of the South Korean presidential contenders agreed to the importance of blocking any military conflict on the peninsula, but they showed subtle difference in ways to resolve a possible security crisis.
Moon Jae-in of the biggest Minjoo Party, a frontrunner in recent opinion polls, said he would immediately have a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump to make sure his firm opposition to any unilateral pre-emptive strike on the DPRK without South Korea's consent.
And then, he would ask the DPRK through various channels to immediately stop any provocation, which can lead to the U.S. attack, while cooperating with China in the meantime.
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