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Won-Gi Jung
Won-Gi Jung is a reporter based in Seoul. He previously worked for the CSIS Korea Chair and East Asia Institute. Follow him on Twitter: @jungwongida.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in carved out a significant chunk of his 2021 New Year's speech to promoting “a peaceful and prosperous Korean Peninsula” and assuring North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he’ll meet “at any time and any place.”
But Pyongyang has made it clear that it’s unhappy with Seoul: The leader’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, slammed the South for being a “truly weird group” and an "idiot" through state media on Wednesday. Days prior, Kim Jong Un reportedly said that relations are back to the pre-Panmunjom Declaration days in a state media report about the country’s now-finished Eighth Party Congress.