The Chairman regrets: parsing Kim Jong Un’s Busan no-show

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The Chairman regrets: parsing Kim Jong Un’s Busan no-show

Pyongyang’s rebuff sounds almost polite, for a change. What’s going on?

Aidan Foster-Carter November 22, 2019

The Chairman regrets: parsing Kim Jong Un’s Busan no-show

Joint Inter-Korean Summit Press Corps - NKNEWS

North Korea never ceases to surprise. Predictably unpredictable, you might say.

But a change of voice? Towards the South? That was the last thing I was expecting right now.

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Aidan Foster-Carter

Aidan Foster-Carter is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he taught sociology at the Universities of Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971 to 1997. Having followed Korean affairs since 1968, since 1997 he has been a full-time analyst and consultant on Korea: writing, lecturing and broadcasting for academic, business and policy audiences in the UK and worldwide.

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