South Korean delegation (R) shakes hands with North Korean delegation (L) South Korean Unification Ministry handout/Getty Images

Moon Jae-in’s Olympic Realpolitik

After a year in which many countries questioned whether it would even be safe to send a delegation to the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korean President Moon Jae-in has served his country well. He has both neutralized the threat of North Korean disruption to the Games and kept a thin-skinned US president firmly on his side.

SEOUL – South Korean President Moon Jae-in has made a good start to the New Year. Not only did he broker an agreement to bring North Korea to the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang; he also convinced US President Donald Trump that doing so was in fact Trump’s idea.

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