SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — To his supporters, South Korean President Moon Jae-in is a master negotiator who’s fixing decades of bad nuclear diplomacy with North Korea. Kim Dae-jung’s engagement with North Korea was often a source of discord with the hard-line administration of former President George W. Bush. For all their differences in personality, Moon has been able to maintain a co-ordinated approach with Trump on North Korea. “It’s not a bad way to approach the North — Moon playing the good cop to Trump’s bad cop,” said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Seoul’s Dongguk University. But North Korea for decades has been pushing a concept of “denuclearization” that bears no resemblance to the American definition.

Source: National Post May 12, 2018 01:18 UTC