SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in's approval rating fell for the second straight week amid rising geopolitical risks following the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s sixth nuclear test, a poll showed Monday.
According to the Realmeter survey, Moon garnered 69.1 percent of support last week, down 4 percentage points from the previous week.
It was based on a poll of 2,543 voters conducted from last Monday to Friday. It had 1.9 percentage points in margin of error with a 95 percent confidence level.
It marked the first time since his inauguration in May that Moon's support scores fell below 70 percent, the pollster said.
Moon's approval rating declined for two weeks in a row as the DPRK conducted its sixth nuclear test last Sunday after testing what it called an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) twice in July.
The Realmeter said that the crisis of security continued following Pyongyang's test of what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb warhead that can be loaded onto a ballistic missile with intercontinental capability.
Moon's ruling Democratic Party gained 49.7 percent of support rate last week, down 1.6 percentage points from a week earlier. It was the first time since the Moon administration was launched that the ruling party's approval rating declined below 50 percent.
Support for the main opposition Liberty Korea Party rose 0.3 percentage points over the week to 16.7 percent last week.
The minor conservative Righteous Party won 6.3 percent in support scores, with the centrist People's Party and the minor progressive Justice Party garnering an identical rate of 5.7 percent.
