Weekend news that officials from North and South Korea would meet today was heralded as a potential bright spot after months of high tensions but the project stalled before it even started after the two sides failed to agree on who should attend. It would have been the first meeting in six years.
The spokesman, Kim Hyung-suk, said the North was “responsible” for backing out, having rejected Seoul’s proposed delegation. But he also described a convoluted series of proposals and counterproposals, unfolding over the past two days, in which each side managed to offend the other.
I don’t know if I’ll ever see peace in the Korean peninsula or in the Middle East.
