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SMH: the inter-Korean Summit to bring about a lasting peace or a bigger danger?

Australian media's reactions to the so-called historic inter-Korean summit are quite different from those in the Korean mainstream media.

Australian media's reactions to the so-called historic inter-Korean summit are quite different from those in the Korean mainstream media. Source: SBS

The Sydney Morning Herald has insightfully analysed if the inter-Korean summit signals a tremendous opportunity to achieve a lasting peace, or the emergence of a new confrontation.


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The Sydney Morning Herald has insightfully analysed if the inter-Korean summit signals a tremendous opportunity to achieve a lasting peace, or the emergence of a new confrontation.


The political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Hartcher, has analysed in his recent column titled ‘Peace in Korea? We’ve been here before, many times” that “how we can so skeptical at what North Korea’s Kim Jong-un described as ‘a very moving moment’?”

 

He has raised questioned that the inter-Korean summit could make the prospects for peace could fizzle out, or a new confrontation emerge, even more dangerous than the last.

Why is the SMH’s international editor very concerned about the outcomes of the historic inter-Korean summit?

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