EI SUN OH

LET me for once be blunt here. From the outset, I was rather ambivalent about the sustainability of the much-touted “Winter Olympic Thaw” between the two Koreas. I can understand why, after a tumultuous few years of repeated nuclear and missile tests in blatant defiance of the will of the mainstream international community, when North Korea decided to extend what counted as an olive branch in view of the then impending Winter Olympics to be held in South Korea, the South eagerly reciprocated almost immediately, and perhaps without extensive consultation with its long-time allies against the North, including the United States.

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