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A Moscow visit for President Park Geun-hye

Brookings

President Park Geun-hye should go to Russia in May with several goals in mind, not the unitary goal of meeting the North Korean leader Kim Jung-un or improving inter-Korean relations in a significant way. As a wartime ally of the United States, the Soviets had agreed to fight in the Pacific theatre against Japan, the former colonizer of the Korean peninsula. True, Stalin’s regime was partly responsible for the division of the peninsula assisting Kim Il-sung in the Korean War. But since South Korea-Russian normalization of relations in 1990 the relationship evolved from residual distrust and attempts by the Seoul …read more

Source: Brookings

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