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David Volodzko
David Volodzko
David Volodzko is the national editor at the Korea JoongAng Daily and a regular contributor at The Diplomat. His work has been published with GlobalPost, the Washington Monthly and Vice, among others.

Aside from playing to the gallery with Korean Air, President Moon Jae-in has done little to confront corruption in the family run enterprises. And renewed cooperation with North Korea will offer more shade for shady deals.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has bet it all on his high-stakes meeting with his counterpart in the North, Kim Jong-un. And unlike Trump, he can’t threaten to fold if things don’t go his way.

While Pyongyang rebrands itself at the Winter Games with Kim Jong-un’s younger sister and its ‘army of beauties’, analysts warn that little has changed.

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Putonghua and English are pushing many minority languages to the brink of extinction. In December, Beijing instructed Han officials working in minority regions to learn local languages.