Moon said he will continue strategic ties with the United States based on their military alliance and their bilateral trade deal.

He wants a better relationship with China, in which they are “strategic cooperative partners” and have more active economic dialogue and communication about the North Korean nuclear issue.

He has vowed a “principled response” to Japan on historic issues such as the dispute over Korean women who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese army during World War II. He also wants to start work on a bilateral trade deal with Japan.