Towards a New Era of Peace in Korea?

I have not written in English for quite a long time. I thought that the current events in Korea could be the best excuse to do so, as it is also a relevant country for me and my interests apart from China, Japan and Tibet. This entry represents a bookmark within all my entries about Korea, as I have focused on different aspects such as trade and its interactions with Japan. I believe that there is no better time to give some continuity to what I wrote in the last chapter of my thesis about North Korea’s foreign policy written during 2012, when Kim Jong-Il died and Kim Jong Un got into power. This entry addresses the main question surrounding the meeting between President Moon and Kim Jong Un during the last days, its implications and possible outcomes. The first section gives an overview about both Koreas after the war, how they have differentiated themselves and how they have evolved and the prevailing discourse they hold from each other. The second section addresses the cont...