North and South Korea will never, ever reconcile. We should adjust expectations. | NK News
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December 22, 2024

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North and South Korea will never, ever reconcile. We should adjust expectations.

The actual goal is to establish, within the Korean Peninsula, a sensible and mild variety of the Cold War regime. 

The following article is an opinion piece by Andrei Lankov, a professor at Kookmin University and a director at Korea Risk Group, which oversees NK News and NK Pro. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.


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