For once, we begin to agree: Korea is not divided. It’s two separate states. | NK News
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For once, we begin to agree: Korea is not divided. It’s two separate states.

Recently, a South Korean newspaper on the left and right both published op-eds arguing the same thing

The following article is a column by Andrei Lankov, a professor at Kookmin University and a director at Korea Risk Group, which oversees NK News and NK Pro. Views expressed in opinion articles and columns are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

As most of our readers are well aware, South Korea is a deeply divided society where the political right and left seldom find common ground. But every once in a while, the two camps surprise us with ideological winds that blow in the same direction.

This is one of those moments.

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