North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced that he will no longer support the longstanding goal of eventually reunifying the two Koreas.
The change of position, coupled with Kim’s flexing of his country’s military muscle, has troubling implications for the Korean peninsula’s stability.
In January, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un surprised the world by asserting that the existence of two Koreas – the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the north and the Republic of Korea in the south – had in his view become…