Bangladesh, April 20 -- A conjecture in a section of the international public spectrum goes that in the upcoming presidential election in South Korea, Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung might emerge as the new occupant of the Blue House. Unlike Yoon Suk-Yeol, who has recently been ousted from the office of President in South Korea, Lee is pro-China. He would review Seouls ties with Washington (and Tokyo) and the ties between South Korea and the United State might be strained in the process.

One, however, finds there is no cloud over the future of Seoul-Washington ties. Lee, if elected the countrys president in the upcoming poll, is highly unlikely to be insensitive to the time- tested pattern of South Korea-US ties. It is well documen...