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No. Moon’s bet his presidency on this; he’ll cleave to it no matter what, even pretending it’s a success if necessary, as Trump is doing. NK outreach is the one big thing the public likes in what’s otherwise been a mediocre POTROK. Foreigners obsessed w/ NK don’t see this, but /1
Moon’s been a hugely disappointing POTROK. He came in on a wave of reformist sympathy and disgust at the rank cronyism of his predecessor and the SK right. (Despite his NK views, I wanted him to win too.) And he’s blown it. Like so many SK presidencies before his,Moon is still /2
ducking the real domestic issues which desperately need fixing: chaebol reform, air quality, Hell Chosun, crashing birth rates, extreme centralization on Seoul, household debt. The SK right couldn’t care less about this stuff, which is why they deserved to lose, but the left, /3
which talks up these issues, continues to not deliver.Fairly depressing that there’s a cross-party consensus that air quality so bad that ppl must frequently wear masks is nonetheless ok. So yes,Moon will pretend there’s US-NK progress even when there’s not,bc that’s all he’s got
