As South Korea prepares to elect a new president in the coming weeks, it’s unlikely he or she will be able to drive forward Moon Jae-in-style policies on inter-Korean cooperation – regardless of how much they may believe in it. The probable long-term continuation of North Korea’s COVID-19 isolation policies, a prevailing international sanctions regime and ongoing U.S.-China great-power competition all make it difficult to imagine tangible progress among many of the goals outlined in the Sept. 2018 Pyongyang Declaration. 

Still, there are some areas of inter-Korean coordination and cooperation that have a higher likelihood