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December 13, 2024

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Why Yoon’s new plan to unify with North Korea is more politics than policy

Regime change and unification by absorption are unrealistic, suggesting main goal is to appeal to president’s base

Every year on Aug. 15, the president of South Korea delivers a speech commemorating Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule. 

But while presidents typically hold forth on patriotism, national glory and crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists, Yoon Suk-yeol’s speech this year was different. He did not discuss Japanese misdeeds but instead focused on one of the paradoxes of liberation — the peninsula’s division into North and South. 

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