SEOUL: Of the many adjectives used to describe the singular nature of North and South Korean relations, “normal” is one that rarely, if ever, crops up.

The complex, volatile and sometimes quite surreal geopolitics of the divided Korean peninsula are very far from ordinary, subject to wild mood swings between two countries that have technically been at war for the past 60 years.

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