SEOUL (AFP): South Korea's hawkish incoming president Yoon Suk-yeol (pic) started work Tuesday (May 10) in an underground bunker with a security briefing on the nuclear-armed North ahead of his formal inauguration ceremony.
Yoon, 61, takes office at a time of high tensions on the Korean peninsula, with an increasingly belligerent Pyongyang conducting a record 15 weapons tests since January, including two launches last week.
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