国际英语资讯:Commentary: S.Korea needs comeback to more constructive Pyongyang policy_时事

国际英语资讯:Commentary: S.Korea needs comeback to more constructive Pyongyang policy

Instead of making South Korea a positive factor when it comes to promoting regional stability, the country's conservative forces, which have gained the upper hand in the politic arena in recent years, have acted otherwise.

Their preference to conduct annual military drills with Washington, which have carried an incremental note of intimidation against its northern neighbor, reinforced Pyongyang's sense of insecurity, prompting more rhetoric and countermeasures from it.

As for the THAAD missile defense system, however valid Seoul's reason to deploy it may sound, the system definitely poses a direct threat to China's strategic interests and security net.

South Korea has been paying the price -- eroded mutual trust and a hampered prospect for bilateral economic cooperation -- for stabbing Beijing in the back when the latter is sparing no efforts to make dialogues possible.

Given all these challenges, the country deserves a president with strong leadership skills who will make the Peninsula more, instead of less, secure and stable.

Seoul's eagerness to defend its security has its reasons, but patience and vision count more when there is no quick or easy fix to the crisis.

It would be advisable that the next South Korean leader respond positively to China's proposal to resume dialogues -- Pyongyang suspends its nuclear program in exchange for the U.S.-South Korean halt of military exercises -- something the previous South Korean leaders have failed to do in the past 10 years.