ah ah ah, ah you watching dw news asia coming up today after 5 years out of power the hocks are back in south korea. unit scipio will be the next president. what does this mean for the country and for east asian peace and security? plus we take a closer look at why japan joined sanctions on russia. how does a far away conflict play out in east asia? ah,

i melissa chan. thanks for joining us. the world is focused on the russian invasion of ukraine, but in asia, the attention is on south korea's presidential election. a consequential one that will determined the country's national security approach to it's very own threatening neighbor to the north, north korea, and will determine u. s. foreign policy in the region, the winner is young if you're a conservative who has said that he would consider a pre emptive strike against north korea and who supports more sanctions against kim john ans regime emitter under armoire tourism young drawer, i will build strong armed forces to deter any provocations partial in order to protect our people, safety property and sovereignty has from you that i will respond

sternly against north korea's illegal and irrational actions. according to principles center, he put out always leave a door open for dialogue with north korea and didn't euro from question. for more we have do young kim from the center for a new american security. joining us a do you and tell us more about yoon and his position on north korea and then what that means for his position on united states. well, thanks for having me back. melissa. we can expect you to be much tougher compared to the current president toward north korea. more principles that these basically means he and his administration will want to actually penalize any bad behavior and prop provocative action by north korea and responds in kind while of keeping the door open to dialogue and diplomacy. so. but no more of skirting around

and, and turning a blind eye to elicit an eagle, illegal, and provocative activity. and so he, this is actually going to be good news for the bite administration. we can expect that the unit and bite in alliance to be much more and single, actually in sync to run more smoothly to be in lock step when it comes to how to deal with north korea. they're going to want to normalize usaa korea joint military drills, which means to really bring back military readiness to normal, which has been, which has been, you know, downsized and minimalized because of the progressive moon government now. but also partly because of the pandemic. and they're also going to want to strengthen what we call us extended deterrence, which is america's a security guaranteed toward software and also japan. and so this would actually

mean things like try to enhance certain military capabilities to defend, really defensive posture and defensive steps to defend both countries. now there's one area that you know, if that could be a challenge, could and we'll have to wait and see is if humans advisors might, at some point in the future, for whatever circumstances. reason if they want to go too far towards maximum pressure on north korea. but at that time perhaps circumstance. how's it that the by the administration may not want to go that far? and that's something that, that, that the, the alice will have to figure out how to do. but otherwise, i think we'll see, you know, the, the alliance working much smoothly, nelly, everything you've said. one thing i've always wondered, is why south korea is not in the choir, which of course includes the united states, japan, australia, and india. and of course, you mentioned that the military alliance is between the u. s. and south korea in

terms of the strongest one. the strongest of alliance, there are, there are american soldiers in south korea. so how do you see south korea fitting into the ecosystem of into pacific security? well, you know, i think south korea cannon is a player and can be a player to contribute and, and, and help a defends the international order with all the other like minded countries in democracies, both asian and european. i know that you and, and his advisors wants to cooperate with quad activities. a my understanding right now is the quad itself is not thinking about expanding actual formal membership, but they'll certainly be working with allies important in the region. and of course, and other europe, especially to and work together on, on interests and issues of mutual concern. and so at least for now we are hearing

that unit is advisors are determined to really step up, do more in the region, contribute more to world issues. so we'll have to see, to what extent they're able to do the concert. there's so much domestic issues that the next president will have to deal with. why she's in office all of this, how he balances both domestic and foreign policies here. young kim, thank you so much. thank you for having me. ah. continuing our look at how the rezo ukrainian conflict is impacting the asia region. japan and joined other nations in sanctions against moscow and has also banned exports of oil refinery equipment to russia. there are historical tensions between the 2 countries with their dispute over who owns the carol islands just off the coast of ohio. it's one of the world's longest running to territorial disagreements, is the main reason the countries fail to sign

a peace treaty at the end of world war 2. known as the southern korean in russia and the northern territories in japan. the archipelago, surrounded by rich fishing grounds, and it's thought to have offshore reserves of oil and gas wash. it says it's planning especially economic zone on the islands, and it's beefing up its military presence. in december, russia deployed coastal defense misses systems near the islands as a show of force on much were a deserted volcanic island in the middle of the chain. sovereignty over, the corals has been disputed for centuries. the islands were occupied by soviet forces at the end of world war 2. japan disputes moscow's claim of sovereignty over the 4 southern korea islands. closest to the main japanese island of ohio. last month, the discovery of a u. s. submarine near the koreans, during rush and military exercises added to the hostile atmosphere between russia and the west. with,

during part of the drills, we have detected near the koreans, a submarine most likely from the united states. in the far east, orange island area is there. after 3 hours of actions, we have removed us from our territory. so, lou, this week, japan's foreign minister yoshi marcia. hi, archie described the 4 islands as an integral part of japan. the sabre rattling over the cordial archipelago goes on. we have jeff kingston, director of asian studies at temple university, japan and jeff, we just had a quick look at japan and russia as territorial gripe. but tell us what the other motivations are for japan taking a strong position on the ukraine crisis. well, i me, i think that the tokyo shares the global outrage at hooton's invasion of ukraine

and the assault on a rules based international order. so i think it wants to demonstrate solidarity with the g 7 strength and the alliance with the u. s. and you know, show that it's ready for prime time of the problem is that japan's track record on sanctions is not that strong. recall about a year ago it promised strong sanctions on the military junta stage a coup d'etat in burma. and nothing much materialized and back in 2014, his sorrow watered down the sanctions against crimea. probably because it was hoping to improve the context for negotiating those return of those disputed northern territories. so a lot remains to be seen. what choke you will actually do. i'm curious,

how is to pan likely going to be impacted by this far away conflict, for example, are you seeing the same spikes in energy prices we're seeing everywhere else? sure. well, the japanese government trying to offset that by rolling out subsidies for prices at the pump to try to rain that in a yes, we're all facing higher energy prices. i think you know, the big impacts are twofold. one is japan is very worried about the implications for taiwan, whether china might see the week, what's perceived to be the week, a resolute wester response has chance for a to a realize it's planned for a taking over the island. and the other big issue is the cycling l. n g projects. up to the north of japan. and you know,

shell and exxon have indicated that they're going to pull out. and, but japanese companies which hold nearly a quarter share in both of those projects are very unlikely to pull out their view here is that if they divest, that's just going to help china. so they're going to hold on to those investments. and i don't think japan is going to be really strong on sanctions on russian energy . russia only counselor about 4 percent of japan's oil imports and about 9 percent of l and g. but because of japan's vulnerability i, i think that's going to be a bit wishy washy. now we're looking at a world that is dividing between democracies and autocracies. and i want you to talk to us about that. let me share with you japanese prime minister from the ok sheet as words to the next south korean president tony ema, mccook,

say soccer and but she does look actually now or you know, he, as the international community faces a new era of major changes and markins and a healthy japan, south korea relationship is indispensable vehicles say in order to realize the international order under rules and for peace, stability and prosperity, and they're high in the world family and for the region he, jeff, with his new south korean leader, are we going to see more cooperation and alignment and security issues between the 2 countries. well, it's going to be very difficult. her solid, her girl never run out of issues to fight over these. fred amys have been battling each other for quite some time. ah, so i'm hopeful but also skeptical that it's all going to work out as planned.

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a toll weld white, fast growing concerned the conflicts initiate a global food crisis with russia and ukraine. both major exports is key prophecies between them. they supply the world with 30 percent of its wheat, at least a 5th of its corn and a massive 80 percent of its sunflower oil. but probably the most important of those is wheat. the price of which has hit record hired as a result of the crisis. it's heading for double what it was just a year ago. developing nations are set to suffer the most as they search for new sources of the staple. any farmer who still has grain in storage is now turning it into cash. prices have never been higher. agricultural trader, although pete us exports wheat via ports in northern germany from here it had to north africa.