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November 13, 2024
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What to make of North Korea’s repeated rejections of South Korea?

Experts weigh in on the increasingly-dim prospects for inter-Korean talks

Start-again, stop-again. That seems to be the repeating mantra of inter-Korean affairs.

Despite being unabashedly in favor of inter-Korean engagement, it took over six months following Moon Jae-in becoming President of South Korea in May 2017 for North Korea to become interested in considering engagement with his government.

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