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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Summary: For a president who was determined to break the mold in South-North relations and to support the normalization of U.S.-North Korea ties, Moon seems poised to leave office with his biggest foreign policy mark on the reinvigoration of the Seoul-Washington alliance.
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Since South Korean President Moon Jae-in entered office in May 2017, he spent the first three years of his presidency focusing on summitry with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, convincing former U.S. president Donald Trump to engage directly with Kim, stressing his own version of “draining the swamp” or rooting out corruption, and promoting wage-led economic growth. However, less than a year before Moon leaves office, his domestic and inter-Korean policies remain mired in setbacks. Surprisingly, Moon’s most enduring foreign policy legacy could lie in resetti
North Korea lashes out at South Korea, US
May 03, 2021, 08:30 am
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister, Kim Yo-jong, slammed South Korea over anti-Pyongyang leaflets floated across the border by a group of North Korean defectors in the South. She made the remarks in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on May 2, 2021./ Source: Yonhap News
Washington correspondent Ha Man-joo & AsiaToday reporter Chun Hyun-bin
As North Korea lashed out at South Korea and the United States on Sunday, pressing for corresponding measures, people are paying attention to how the stalled relationship among Seoul, Pyongyang and Washington will go. Many are curious about whether North Korea, which has maintained a wait-and-see attitude until the outline of Biden administration’s policy toward North Korea came out, will express its position and take action.
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