President Wen tweeted “Biden, let’s go together” instead of writing a letter to beat Trump.

United States President-elect Joe Biden makes a fist-clenching gesture to supporters on the 7th (local time). [AP=연합뉴스]

President Moon Jae-in told President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who won the US presidential election on the 8th, “We are very excited about the future development of the bilateral relations that we will open together. Let’s go together, ”he sent a message on Twitter. President Moon said: “Our alliance is strong and the solidarity between the two countries is very strong. I look forward to working with you two for our shared values. ”

President Moon also posted a message in English on Twitter, and in particular the message ‘Let’s go together’ wrote ‘Katchi Kapshida’ as it is in Korean. This is in response to Biden’s writing of the last sentence as ‘Katchi Kapshida’ in a contribution to Yonhap News on the 29th of last month. In his contributions, Biden-elect referred to Korea as a “strong alliance” and said: “Instead of extorting Korea for reckless threats to withdraw our troops, I work with Korea to strengthen our alliance to keep the peace in eastern Asia and beyond. I hold up.”

On the morning of the 8th, President Moon Jae-in left a congratulatory message on Twitter for the victory of Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the US presidential elections. [연합뉴스]

President Moon’s Twitter message arrived at 10 a.m. the same day, eight hours after Biden declared victory in force. However, expressions such as ‘winner’, ‘winner’, ‘victory’ and ‘president’ were excluded from the Twitter message. The first sentence of the message, “Congratulations”, was the only expression that could predict Biden’s victory in the presidential election.

The Blue House did not give a separate briefing on the US presidential election, and Blue House officials did not skimp on words to make this day. President Donald Trump is interpreted to have struggled with the management of the official message because he did not accept the results of the presidential election. In particular, as President Moon and President Trump have gained confidence for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, analysts say that President Moon feels burdened to officially congratulate Biden-elect before President Trump surrenders to the election results.

A senior Blue House official explained that President Moon delivered a congratulatory message to Biden via Twitter message rather than formal diplomatic means as a congratulatory event, saying: “The situation where the President Trump does not recognize the results of the presidential elections. ” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister Suga also congratulated Biden on Twitter.

President Kim Dae-jung and George W. Bush at the 2002 Korea-United States Summit [중앙포토]

The timing of official congratulations and phone calls will be adjusted based on President Trump’s acceptance of the presidential election. If President Trump engages in a large-scale objection lawsuit, the time to congratulate Biden-elect as an official diplomatic channel could be significantly delayed. During the US presidential elections of 2000, the Democratic candidate Al Gore did not give up for some time before the victory of Republican George W. Bush. At that time, former President Kim Dae-jung sent his first congratulations to Bush, whose victory was confirmed the day after the US presidential elections (November 7). However, candidate Gore canceled the acknowledgment of defeat and finally admitted defeat on December 13 after a recount. On the 14th, the next day, former President Kim again sent a congratulatory greeting to candidate Bush, and on the 16th he made a phone call.

Reporter Yoon Seongmin [email protected]