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December 24, 2024

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Moon Jae-in: stuck between a rock and a hard place on North Korea

Washington must not force Seoul to choose between the U.S. and the North

On June 15, 2000, the leaders of South and North Korea met for the first time and discussed what then seemed like imminent reunification. Nineteen years on, the dream of a united Korea slips further and further away.

Worse, South Korea’s position between the North and the United States is becoming almost untenably precarious.

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