South Korea's first female president
Monday 25 February 2013
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EmailPark Geun-Hye celebrated becoming her country's first female president today with a broadside at North Korea.
She faces challenges of slowing growth and soaring welfare costs.
But the 61-year-old daughter of late military dictator Park Chung-Hee vowed zero tolerance, demanding Pyongyang "abandons its nuclear ambitions" immediately, while pledging to build trust with the north.
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