By Dr. Ilias Iliopoulos
(Dr. Ilias Iliopoulos was awarded his Ph.D. (Dr. phil) from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. He has long been a Professor at the Hellenic National Defence College, the Hellenic Naval War College and the American College of Greece. He is currently teaching International Relations and History, Strategy, and Geopolitics at the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the National University of Athens, Greece)
Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 1 December 2024
Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies
The President of the Republic of Korea (broadly known as South Korea) Yoon Suk-yeol held an impressive speech on the occasion of the Liberation Day, 15 August 2024, in which he reaffirmed Seoul’s commitment to the unification of both parts of the Korean peninsula. President Yoon Suk-yeol went so far to declare that his country would ‘keep the door to inter-Korean dialogue wide open’; and even more significantly, he did so despite Kim Jong-un’s announcement at the end of 2023 of a new Two Koreas Policy, which defined the so called Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (i.e., North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (a.k.a. South Korea) as ‘two belligerent states’, thus abandoning the policy of ‘peaceful unification’ which had been the declared objective of the Communist North since decades, at least in theory.... Read more