About the Author
Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll has written on North Korea since 2010 and writes between London and Seoul.
Despite South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s eagerness for inter-Korean reconciliation, North Korea’s demolition of the joint liaison office in June showed how little Pyongyang has grown to care about relations with Seoul.
For Kim Jong Un, the inter-Korean summits of 2018 resulted in little more than lofty goals and flowery rhetoric. Large-scale infrastructure projects, massive South Korean tourism projects and significant inflows of finance never became more than ink on paper.