Vladimir Tikhonov
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That is what I have been always thinking. We can't simply blame the US for all our problems. Of course, the UN sanctions which US has been spearheading - and which South Korea never publicly opposed, by the way - are to be blamed for much of the retardation of economic development in North Korea. They are also to be blamed for terrible humanitarian consequences, including the lack of life-saving medicines in the country. But, in addition to it, South Korea has it own sanctions in place - and, despite all the re conciliatory rhetoric, it NEVER abolished them. It refuses to re-investigate the 2010 Cheonan sinking incident, despite the existence of evidences suggesting that Pyongyang might not be culpable in it (and despite the fact that the guy who was ruling South Korea at that time is a convicted fraudster, now in prison). So, to be fair, North Koreans DO have some good reasons to be angry at us, although, of course, they could have used a finer language in their public speech concerning South Korean leadership. South Korea's leaders today are not 'lackeys', they are just the people bound by South Korean corporate interests, apprehensive of the possible insubordination on the part of their own military and security apparatus and generally steeped in the culture of conformism, afraid to further alienate South Korea's upper-middle classes. But by the standards of South Korean political milieu, they are definitely not the worst pack of state managers....
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Missed diplomatic opportunity? South Korea's unilateral North Korea sanctions | NK News
Despite South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s eagerness for inter-Korean reconciliation, North Korea’s demolition of the joint liaison office in June showed how little Pyongyang has grown to care about relations with Seoul. For Kim Jong Un, the inter-Korean summits of 2018 resulted in little more...
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