North Korea says it will no longer seek reunification with South Korea, will launch new spy satellites in 2024
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You can tell a Moon Jae-in by the company he keeps
This article was originally published May 14, 2017 under the headline “Moon’s right-hand man former friend to the North.” It was republished on June 18, 2020, after then-Chief of Staff Im Jong-seok was mentioned as then-President’s Moon Jae-in’s possible nominee for the post of unification minister. Someone else ended up getting that job but now we are publishing the piece for the third time, with new headlines, in response to the news that ex-President Moon has said in a newly published memoir that he credits Kim Jong Un’s promise to abandon the North’s nuclear weapons.
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