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Reunification is no ‘pipe dream.’ Korea has already started to reconcile.

An op-ed recently argued that the most Koreans can realistically hope for is a "mild Cold War" — but that's not right

The following article is an opinion piece by Wang Son-taek, a research associate at Yeosijae (Future Consensus Institute) and a former diplomatic correspondent for South Korea’s YTN news network. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

Last week, Kookmin University Professor Andrei Lankov published an op-ed in NK News that argued that North and South Korea will never reconcile.

I am a longtime student and admirer of Professor Lankov’s work, but I have no choice but to raise my hand and offer my take in order to prevent