South Korean news outlet, Asia Today, published a series of articles based on a recent interview with Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon. The following are highlights from an unofficial translation of an article focused on the current political turmoil and its implications for U.S. relations for both North and South Korea. You can read the original article in Korea at the following link: https://www.asiatoday.co.kr/kn/view.php?key=20250205010001876&ref=search
Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon, Chairman of the Global Peace Foundation spoke on the possibility of a reunified Korea. In terms of the political situation in South Korea, he pointed out that South Korea may be marginalized in the future of U.S.-North Korea relations as the U.S. enters a second Donald Trump administration. To overcome this, he emphasized that restoring South Korea’s currently collapsed democratic system and restoring public trust must be prioritized.
“The Trump administration is also discussing and making new policies on how to deal with Kim Jong Un,” Moon said at a press conference at the Fairmont Ambassador Seoul Hotel in Yeouido, Seoul, earlier in the day. ”That’s why the reunification movement I’m doing now is very important not only for Korea but also for the world.”
“The current Korean Dream movement can influence the Trump administration of the United States to set the right policy related to the Korean Peninsula,” Moon said. “What American think tanks and policy makers have in common is that they admit that the approach with a single goal of ‘denuclearization of North Korea’ is wrong,” he said. ”Therefore, the Trump administration is looking for a new alternative solution, and the most central theme in that solution is the reunification of North and South Korea.”
“Just a few hours after President Yoon declared emergency martial law, it was revoked by the democratic system. The first impeachment failed in the National Assembly, and the second impeachment finally succeeded, and then the Prime Minister became the acting president, but even the Prime Minister was impeached, so with whom would the U.S. work?” he asked.
“The international community is looking at South Korea very carefully,” he said, pointing to the breakdown of the rule of law and the separation of powers, including the Constitutional Court. In the eyes of world leaders, what is going on in South Korea is similar to what happened in Venezuela. The people are feeling it,” he said.