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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced that he will no longer support the longstanding goal of eventually reunifying the two Koreas. The change of position, coupled with Kim’s flexing of his country’s military muscle, has troubling implications for the Korean peninsula’s stability.
How do North and South Korea move toward an amicable and friendly relationship that would set the ball rolling toward a peaceful reunification by consensus?
North Korea may create the post of first vice foreign minister in a bid to deal with affairs with South Korea, as the country has been pushing to abolish agencies in charge of inter-Korean ties, a Seoul official said Friday. Ko Young-hwan, a former North Korean diplomat who has become special adviser to South Korea's unification minister, said North Korea could appoint Ri Son-gwon, head of the United Front Depar.