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Kim Jong Un’s Mount Kumgang bombshell: what’s at stake

A lapsed tourist joint venture is suddenly a site of discord — here's how the North Korean leader put Seoul on the spot
Aidan Foster-Carter October 28, 2019
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Kim Jong Un has stopped testing nuclear bombs, at least for now. What he hasn’t stopped is dropping bombshells. His latest – figurative, I hasten to add – has gotten North Korea’s leader where he likes to be. Back in the global media headlines, raising eyebrows, ruffling feathers.

For good measure, he’s also put South Korea on the spot and on the defensive. Result!

On October 23, Kim was reportedto have made his first ever known trip to one of the

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Aidan Foster-Carter

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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