The South Korean ruling party’s leading presidential candidate for 2022, Lee Jae-myung, revealed his comprehensive views on the country’s North Korea and foreign policy in a Facebook post on Sunday.

Lee of the Democratic Party vowed to continue much of the incumbent Moon Jae-in administration’s pro-engagement North Korea policy and to play a “mediator” role as a stakeholder on Korean Peninsula issues, while appearing to address frequent points of criticism the Moon administration received in the past few years.

Lee promised to persuade the U.S. and U.N. of the need for