South Korea | The foreign tour of the South Korean president turned into a “diplomatic disaster” – an outrageous comment was recorded at a UN meeting after the microphone froze on

South Korea president With Yoon Suk-yeol has behind him the first extensive series of trips abroad. During that time, many things went wrong.

According to the Reuters news agency, Yoon’s approval ratings have dropped considerably, and the president has received criticism even from his own party.

In addition to Reuters, the issue has been reported by, among others, a British newspaper The Guardian and a US news channel CNN.

All began on Monday of this week, when Yoon Suk-yeol flew to London, where he was scheduled to attend the Queen Elizabeth’s for a state funeral. However, he never made it.

According to Yoon’s representatives, the president did not attend the queen’s funeral, as London traffic was in huge chaos due to the funeral on Monday. Therefore, he did not make it to the funeral, which was organized in Westminster Abbey.

Yoon continued his journey from London to New York for the summit week of the UN General Assembly. After that, he still traveled to Canada, where he arrived on Thursday.

Yoon’s during the torment week, the conversation he had with the president of the United States attracted the most attention Joe Biden with in the UN General Assembly. After a quick exchange of words, Yoon didn’t notice that the microphone was still on when he shared his thoughts with his country’s foreign minister For Park Jin.

“It would be really humiliating for Biden if these assholes don’t accept it [ehdotusta]”, Yoon said.

The comment was recorded by numerous South Korean media outlets, and a video of the incident quickly spread on social media.

Yoon’s the inappropriate language has drawn criticism even from members of the president’s own conservative party. According to Reuters, the party leader has described the president’s choice of words as “very regrettable”.

The purpose of Yoon’s trip was to be a kind of screen place for the rest of the world. South Korea’s highest officials had hoped that the trip would present the country as a globally important state that sovereignly restrains the weapons tests carried out by its neighbor North Korea.

South Korea the opposition has accused President Yoon of insulting Biden. According to the opposition, Yoon’s trips were unequivocally a “diplomatic disaster”.

In addition, the opposition believes that Yoon did not show his respect to Queen Elizabeth while in London.

Yoon has also been criticized for not properly preparing for Biden or the Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida to the meeting.

Yoon was originally scheduled to speak with Biden in New York. Plans changed, and the conversation was reduced to a 48-second exchange of a few sentences.