With a “crude” new foreign minister, North Korea strengthens its hard-line turn
Ri Son Gwon, with his reputation for bluster, may be the ideal DPRK diplomat if tensions rise in the coming year
Pyeongyang Press Corps / file photo
It was September 2018, and peace and reconciliation was the talk of Pyongyang as a gaggle of South Korean VIPs descended on the North Korean capital for a gala summit between President Moon Jae-in and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un.
Among those VIPs were some of South Korea's richest men: Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo, and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won.
It was September 2018, and peace and reconciliation was the talk of Pyongyang as a gaggle of South Korean VIPs descended on the North Korean capital for a gala summit between President Moon Jae-in and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un.
Among those VIPs were some of South Korea's richest men: Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo, and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won.
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