Parsing Korean rhetoric and reality

Sixty-six years of intense hostility have bred an extreme brand of rhetoric on both sides of the border. But the reality is it’s a cold conflict.

South Korea's president, Park Geun-hye, pictured in 2014, accused North Korean leader Kim Jong-un of 'maniacal recklessness' after its most recent nuclear test. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 14, 2016

LONDON, U.K.—Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said that North Korea was the “neighbourhood outlaw” after Pyongyang’s fifth nuclear weapons test on Friday. Barack Obama said that “The United States does not, and never will, accept North Korea as a nuclear state.” Even China v...

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