Commentary: What good is an apology if North Korean ‘accidents’ keep happening?

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s apology says more about South Korea than on first sight, says Robert E Kelly.

OUTREACH OR APPEASEMENT?

South Korean conservatives have damned this as appeasement. The right in Seoul today compares Moon to Neville Chamberlain and insists he is a pawn of Pyongyang. How to handle North Korea is now probably the deepest political division in the country. Moon has faced months of street protests from conservatives describing him as a toady of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a traitor to South Korean democracy.

A code of conduct for the Yellow Sea would be an obvious and easy step. This would not require the consent of the international parties – the United States and the United Nations – mixed up in Korea. Moon and Kim could negotiate this directly. That is nice test of Pyongyang’s commitment to détente.SOUTH KOREA NEEDS A UNIFIED RESPONSE

Yet he has pursued a deeply polarising foreign policy and has continued it despite little result. After three years of Moon and American President Donald Trump engaging Kim Jong Un, the situation on the ground in Korea is virtually unchanged.

 

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