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Seoul minister denies new policy seeks unification with North Korea ‘by force’

Kim Yung-ho says doctrine seeks to update rather than replace long-standing roadmap, despite calling for ‘unified ROK’

South Korea’s unification minister denied that Seoul seeks to unify with North Korea “by force” on Thursday, a week after President Yoon Suk-yeol introduced a new policy that explicitly embraced “freedom-based unification” under ROK rule.

In a meeting with foreign correspondents, Kim Yung-ho maintained that South Korea does not pursue unification by absorption despite Yoon’s call for spreading freedom to the DPRK to create a “unified Republic of Korea.”

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