South Korea has given up on talking to the North
The conservative government prefers emphasising its military superiority
THE AUTUMN of 2018 was a heady time on the Korean peninsula. Meetings earlier that year between Moon Jae-in, then South Korea’s president, and Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s dictator, had buoyed hopes for peace between the two Koreas and prosperity in the North. So had a bromance-laden encounter between Mr Kim and Donald Trump, America’s president, in Singapore.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A little less conversation”
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