To commemorate the launching of its website, Internet-based news service Frontier Times conducted a survey on the general public's political views in conjunction with 21st Century R&D.

The results, released Monday, revealed that even though 49.1 percent of respondents said South Korea should ally with the United States in the event of an armed clash between the global superpower and North Korea, 20.3 percent said the two Koreas should present a united front, while 30.6 percent were undecided on which of the two nations Seoul should align with.

Of those who favored supporting North Korea, 25.4 percent were in their 30s, 21.9 percent were in their 40s, 20.6 percent were in their 20s, 18 percent were in their 50s and the smallest fraction, 12.4 percent, were aged 60 or older.

Meanwhile, former prime minister Goh Kun topped the list of preferred candidates for the nation's next president with 30.3 percent of respondents naming him, followed by Grand National Party chief Park Geun-hye (22.1 percent), Unification Minister Chung Dong-young (9 percent) and Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak (6.4 percent).

The survey was conducted nationwide on 1001 men and women above the age of 20, and has a margin of error of 3.1 percent.

(Yoon Jeong-ho, jhyoon@chosun.com )