Yoon Seok-yeol ‘contributing to freedom in the Indo-Pacific region’ Biden ‘supporting the independent media election system’

Yoon Seok-yeol ‘contributing to freedom in the Indo-Pacific region’ Biden ‘supporting the independent media election system’


President Seok-Yeol Yoon said that “corruption is suppressing freedom” and opposed the expansion of freedom of the press through economic support for “increasing the freedom and prosperity of young people in the Indo-Pacific region” and media control by strengthening crackdowns on fake news.
Regarding the’Democracy Summit’ started by US President Biden, a senior US administration official told the AP on the 28th that “the focus is not against democracy, but to create technology for democracy.”
On the 30th, President Yoon said, “Corruption is what distorts the community’s decision-making system. “Corruption threatens democracy and suppresses freedom,” he said. We will support them so that they can contribute to their prosperity.”
The Associated Press reports that the $690 million new funding proposed by President Biden will be aimed at programs that support free and independent media, fight corruption, strengthen human rights, advance technologies that improve democracy, and support free and fair elections. "The law-based investigation without sanctuary and strict punishment are the basis for countering corruption," said President Yoon. We need to take strong action against crime,” he said.
President Yoon said this in a welcome speech at the opening ceremony of the Indo-Pacific regional meeting of the 2nd Democracy Summit, saying, "Strengthening transparency in each sector of society is the best way to eliminate corruption." Dissemination distorts and incapacitates the community's decision-making system."
President Yoon said, “Democracy is a community decision-making system to guarantee freedom and human rights, and the rule of law is a system that enables the free coexistence of community members as the rule of law, not the rule of people.” To distort is corruption. Corruption threatens democracy and suppresses freedom," he said, colliding with representative democracy by political parties and the independence of the judiciary.
President Yoon spoke of “freedom and the rule of law” in previous UN speeches and summits, and at the “Democracy Summit” hosted by US President Biden, he added “democracy” at the end.
A Biden administration official said, “The US government has agreed with 10 other countries on the principles of how to use surveillance technology,” regarding “technology for democracy, not against democracy” at the’Democracy Summit’. “The use of these surveillance technologies The agreement in principle comes after President Biden signed an executive order earlier this week restricting the use of commercial spyware tools used to spy on human rights activists, journalists and dissidents around the world,” the Associated Press reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his opening remarks at the summit that Israel maintains a "strong democracy" despite "very intense public debate". It means the will of the people expressed by majority vote, and it also means protection of civil rights and individual rights. It is a balance between the two.”
The New York Times reported that Netanyahu's critics say his plan to change the composition of Israel's judiciary is an existential threat to Israel's 75-year-old democratic tradition. and pointed out the situation in which protests and clashes are growing.
The Biden White House said of the second’democracy summit’, “A dark cloud over the long-planned meeting is a move by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition government to undermine the power of the judiciary, and it shows how dictatorial practices are permeating the world. It's just the most vivid sign that it shows,” he said. “Biden administration officials are also carefully watching countries like Mexico, which have moved to seize election oversight bodies. In India, where the top opposition political leader was disqualified from holding office in parliament last week, supporters of autocratic president Jair Bolsonaro's electoral defeat last year told the NYT about "Brazil" of orchestrated riots in the capital Brasilia in January.
White House spokesman John F. Kirby said at a briefing on the 27th, “President Biden ‘strongly’ urged the Israeli government to find a compromise on the judicial plan that sharply divided society and sparked massive protests.” announced a “planning pause,” followed by a pre-recorded opening speech.
When Israeli Secretary of State Galland announced on the 18th that “social rifts caused by judicial reform endangered national security,” Prime Minister Netanyahu fired the defense minister the following Sunday (19th), demonstrating that political considerations took precedence over security, and on Monday ( 20) Civil protests, nationwide strikes, medical services, schools suspended flights, and garbage collection stopped.