In “Good Fences, Good Neighbors,” Song Min-soon, who served as South Korean foreign minister from 2006-2008, offers a deliberately unsentimental reassessment of how South Korea has framed security, peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula.
The book does not seek to revive faith in reconciliation or to refine existing peace processes. Instead, it begins from a blunt diagnosis: North Korea’s denuclearization has moved beyond the realm of feasibility, and policies built on that premise have produced what Song describes as an “unstable form of status quo management.”
Song argues that South Korea ha
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