South Korea is a deeply divided society whose politics are defined by endless feuds between the right and left. Nearly all media outlets take sides in this partisan struggle.

It is thus surprising to see the unusually like-minded responses of conservatives and progressives to the recent U.S.-ROK summit, with both sides extolling the results.

At the summit, South Korean President Moon Jae-in secured U.S. President Joe Biden’s commitment to the 2018 Kim-Trump Singapore declaration. Moon and Biden in their joint statement explicitly mentionthe declaration as the basis for action on the North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile