Seoul-ful search for peace


Provocative move: A man walking past a television screen showing a news broadcast on North Korea’s nuclear test at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea. — Bloomberg

Today’s S. Korea is caught between several rocks and hard places, but the hazy ideal of Korean reunification remains undiminished regardless of the mounting challenges.

WHAT does an international security conference in South Korea do when North Korea has just fired off a series of test missiles while pressing ahead with its nuclear weapons programme?

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