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PREVIEW: NORTH KOREA: Colleague David Maxwell comments on the ambition of the new South Korea government to accommodate the DPRK. More to come.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: NORTH KOREA: Colleague David Maxwell comments on the ambition of the new South Korea government to accommodate the DPRK. More to come.
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1:01.0

looking for accommodation with North Korea. David Maxwell joins to comment on the proposal

1:07.7

what we know so far and how it easily could can be disappointed by the Kim regime

1:14.4

in North Korea as several Kim regime predecessors have disappointed Seoul looking for accommodation

1:24.0

before. Here's David Maxwell to explain. We're likely to be, I think the word he

1:30.9

uses, doomed. More of this tonight. Well, the way that he describes it and his administration

1:37.2

officials is a reduction of military tensions, is a reestablishment of engagement and contact, family reunions, and all of the things

1:48.8

that are really very sound and desirable objectives.

1:55.2

However, they really belie the lack of understanding of Kim Jong-un and what he's trying to do.

2:05.0

These are nice objectives, and really they sound very nice.

2:09.6

Let's reduce military tension.

2:11.2

Let's have exchanges.

2:12.5

Let's have people-to-people contact.

2:14.8

All of those things are worthy objectives, but that's not what Kim Jong-un is all

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