<h1>Strong deterrence and diplomacy: Lee seeks talks with North while reinforcing trilateral security and economic measures.</h1> President Lee combines strong deterrence backed by the South Korea-US alliance with reopening dialogue with North Korea and strengthening trilateral cooperation with the US and Japan; he simultaneously prioritises economic revitalisation via an emergency task force and increased spending, commits to investigating the previous administration's martial law imposition, and notes that his pending criminal trials will likely pause under presidential immunity.