Source: The American Conservative
by Rob York
“Kim Jong Un has been an inept diplomat and a poor steward of North Korea’s resources, such as they are, but he remains the gold standard internationally for outrageous sound bites. North Korea ended 2023 and began 2024 with the shocking declaration that South Korea is no longer, contrary to decades of declarations and internal propaganda, an entity with which the North can unify. Due to the ‘hostility’ of the Yoon Suk Yeol government — hostility manifested in Yoon’s refusal to do like his predecessor and offer concessions to the North and float symbolic but ultimately pointless proposals for inter-Korean cooperation — Kim declared that the entire proposition a waste of time. Unfortunately, North Korea seemingly has something other than peaceful coexistence in mind.” (06/25/24)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/north-koreas-russian-turn-is-more-bark-than-bite/