Is South Korea finally losing its patience with the North?



Columns Is South Korea finally losing its patience with the North? South Korean foreign minister Chung Eui-yong had some harsh words for North Korea recently Aidan Foster-Carter April 28, 2021 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON Pyongyang Joint Press Corps (Cheongwadae) / Moon and Kim riding a car together in 2019 The following article is a column by Aidan Foster-Carter, an honorary senior research fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England. North Korea must apologize. And pay compensation. And promise never to do it again. Not a view you hear often from South Korea’s government. Regarding Pyongyang, Moon Jae-in’s role model seems to be the proverbial three wise monkeys: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. And keep turning the other cheek, over and over. That’s how it’s been for almost four years. Yet on April 21, Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong sounded a very different © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. Get the Daily Update & Podcast Updates Start your day with the North Korea stories that matter most – as selected by Trending

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Is South Korea finally losing its patience with the North?

South Korean foreign minister Chung Eui-yong had some harsh words for North Korea recently

Aidan Foster-Carter April 28, 2021

Is South Korea finally losing its patience with the North?

Pyongyang Joint Press Corps (Cheongwadae) / Moon and Kim riding a car together in 2019

The following article is a column by Aidan Foster-Carter, an honorary senior research fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England.

North Korea must apologize. And pay compensation. And promise never to do it again.

Not a view you hear often from South Korea’s government. Regarding Pyongyang, Moon Jae-in’s role model seems to be the proverbial three wise monkeys: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. And keep turning the other cheek, over and over.

That’s how it’s been for almost four years. Yet on April 21, Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong sounded a very different

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Aidan Foster-Carter

Aidan Foster-Carter is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he taught sociology at the Universities of Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971 to 1997. Having followed Korean affairs since 1968, since 1997 he has been a full-time analyst and consultant on Korea: writing, lecturing and broadcasting for academic, business and policy audiences in the UK and worldwide.

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