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Won Chul Kim

Won Chul Kim

Washington correspondent for the South Korean newspaper The Hankyoreh and frequent podcast guest on U.S.-Korea policy (CSIS's The Impossible State, KEI Live).

Oct 9, 2026

26:43
Mm.
26:43
Yeah, it is very tragic and unfortunate, and it is very tricky situation, uh, especially given the possibility of a summit between North and the US.
26:53
So but basically, from the South Korean government's perspective, uh, they wanna do both, like a firm r- response and at the thing, at the same time, talks.
27:02
They think both are not mutually exclusive.
27:06
So first of all, based on the UNC's finding, the South Korean government ask North Korea to apologize and take, uh, responsible measures, and at the same time, it also called for talks to prevent similar incidents in the future.
27:22
Um, and in fact, there are longstanding issues with the military, uh, demarcation line.
27:28
That line was drawn with a pencil on a one to 50,000, uh, scale map-
27:38
Hmm.

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