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Lina Park
Lina Park is a news trainee at NK News. She previously researched North Korean human rights issues at Hanvoice and South Korean foreign relations at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada.
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Features North Korea’s new unification stance deals another blow to separated familiesNew policy declaring South Korea an enemy makes reuniting aging relatives tougher, but families still hold out hope Families separated by the Korean War were dealt another blow when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that unification with South Korea is “impossible,” a declaration that will likely make reuniting people on both sides of the peninsula even more difficult. “Separated families will be perceived as nationals of an enemy country” now that North Korea has thoroughly identified South Korea as its foremost enemy, Cho Han-bum, a researcher at KINU, told NK News. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |