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- Title
FIRE ON THE SEA, NO BALLOONS IN THE SKY.
- Authors
FOSTER-CARTER, AIDAN
- Abstract
Inter-Korean relations, still formally in abeyance, were dominated in September and October by a mysterious and tragic incident in the West Sea. A Southern official went missing from a survey vessel and ended up in Northern waters--where he was shot and his body burnt. Kim Jong Un apologized, sort of, and Seoul revealed that he and Moon Jae-in had earlier privately exchanged pleasantries--but neither this, nor Unification Minister Lee In-young's ceaseless calls for aid and cooperation, cut any ice in Pyongyang. Meanwhile Kim launched a campaign to eradicate Southern slang among Northern youth. In December Moon's ruling party passed a law to ban propaganda balloon launches across the DMZ, prompting widespread criticism but earning no praise from the North. At a big Party Congress in January, Kim lambasted the South in shopworn terms, withdrew his "goodwill," and said the ball is in Seoul's court. For good measure, his sister Kim Yo Jong called South Korea "weird." Despite Moon's dreams, the 2018 peace process is over, with scant prospects of renewal.
- Subjects
SEOUL (Korea); KIM, Jong-un, 1984-; PRAISE; BALLOONING; POLITICAL parties; SKY; MOON, Jae-In, 1953-; APOLOGIZING
- Publication
Comparative Connections: A Triannual E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 3, p89
- ISSN
1930-5370
- Publication type
Article