The Korean Odyssey

Criticizing the Discussions on Korean Peninsula Unification  by Kim Jong-un, Yoon Suk-yeol, and Im Jong-seok * The Forgotten Dialogue Between North and South Korea: Is Unification an Impossible Dream?   @iStock Il Young Jeong Research Professor_Institute of Social Sciences_Sogang University There was a movie titled The Good, the Bad, the Weird , set in Manchuria during the Japanese colonial period. Recently, another trio has emerged on the Korean Peninsula: the dangerous one, the ignorant one, and the strange one. These terms refer to Kim Jong-un, Yoon Suk-yeol, and Im Jong-seok.  Kim Jong-un, the "Dangerous One“ North Korean leader Kim Jong-un claims his development of nuclear weapons is for self-defense. However, he now threatens the people of South Korea, saying he could launch nuclear weapons toward the South. By denying the ethnic kinship between North and South and threatening peace on the Korean Peninsula, Kim Jong-un is indeed a “dangerous one.” Furthermore, Kim portrays t