The Olympics could help solve the Korean crisis -- if Seoul allows it

[Kim Jong Un’s grandfather] Kim Il Sung’s protestation fell on deaf ears. [Mikhail] Gorbachev, in dire need of foreign cash to prop up the faltering Soviet economy, agreed to meet Roch [Tae-woo, the new South Korean president] in San Francisco in June 1990. The two countries then moved rapidly to normalize relations.

The prevailing expectation around the world was that North Korea would survive the end of the Cold War. Thirty years and six nuclear tests later, the macabre regime is still in place. As Kim Yong Nam shows, even the faces haven’t changed all that much.

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