April 24, 2024
Analysis

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

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

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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