Hard conflicts sometimes need the soft touch of truth. That could now be the case for the two Koreas, which have been at odds for 70 years, either in all-out war or frequent violent encounters.
On September 25, in a rare admission of fallibility, the “supreme leader” of North Korea apologised to the South Korean people for his military shooting a South Korean official found floating in the sea a few days earlier. He also admitted the killing “will clearly” have a negative impact on inter-Korean relations and promised such incidents would not recur...
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