President Moon Jae-in gave two key speeches during his recent trip to three Nordic countries. His address at the Oslo Forum has been more widely reported, but the remarks at Sweden’s Riksdag were the more detailed.

Both speeches made specific references to the ways in which the case of Northern Europe can serve as an example for an inter-Korean peace process.

Trust was the key theme of Moon’s speech in Stockholm. He discussed three types of trust: between the peoples of South and North Korea, in dialogue to bring peace, and from the international society in North Korea.

Regarding trust