Moon Jae-in

I think that has a psychological, um, effect on people like us ob- observing them because we are like, "Oh, we thought that they are just boring, you know, rigid individuals," but they are able to [laughs] do things that we otherwise would not have imagined them to do.

Back in 2018 when I was watching the first summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un i- at the Panmunjom, the DMZ, the demilitarized zone in, in, uh, in Korea in 2017, I did not quite imagine Kim Jong-un to be like that as I watched him for the first time, um, on camera, streamed live on the South Korean news channel on YouTube.

So that was when I was very much fascinated by this idea of summit and leaders face to face because I know I'm not part of the conversation between Moon and Kim, and yet just seeing Kim Jong-un for the first time, you know, saying hello, shaking hands, smiling, having his wife, you know, meet Moon Jae-in's wife, et cetera.

I was like, "Oh, wow, turns out he is, he's actually pretty human." Um, and I say this humanizes a lot of the leaders, not in, not always in the positive sense of humanizing them, but this idea that before Kim Jong-un came onto the international stage of diplomacy in 2017, you know, years ago he had executed his own uncle.

Um, apparently he's, like, fed, fed him to the dogs or something like that, something really brutal.

And, you know, the Korean military actually had to break Korean law in order to bring the THAAD missile interceptors onto Korean territory.

The president, Moon Jae-in, said no THAAD interceptors.

And the South Korean military, taking orders from the U.S. military, installed them anyway.

And so that tells you who has actually control over the South Korean military.

The court ordered the defendant to pay nearly 44.63 billion won, or around US$33,000, which was the amount Seoul had requested.

The liaison office opened in September 2018 at a South Korea-built facility inside the shuttered inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex, following the historic summit between former President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the truce village of Panmunjom.

The North blew up the building in June 2020 after taking issue with the anti-Pyongyang leaflet activities of North Korean defector groups in the South.

Rival parties questioned Defense Minister nominee Kang Shin-chul about key defense matters and about his family's real estate dealings during his parliamentary confirmation hearing on Wednesday.