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Death of the dream? Dark clouds loom over Moon’s hopes for North-South relations

Sacrificing democratic values to salvage relations with the North threatens to sour the President’s legacy

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The good news is that we no longer have to expend energy debating Moon Jae-in’s inter-Korean cooperation legacy, because there might not be one for much longer.

Within a single week kicked off by a colorful and combative statement from Kim Yo Jong, Pyongyang has substantially rolled back all of the Moon administration’s gains from 2018’s flurry of summitry.

The liaison office at Kaesong is set for closure — and potential destruction. The inter-Korean military agreement repudiated. The direct