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Episode 31: Japan, South Korea and the US

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The Importance of Individual Actors in South Korean Politics

John Defterios: It's really interesting that the importance of individual actors, so these two, the Prime Minister of Japan, the President of South Korea, taking these sort of personal steps to have sort of visits to each other's countries in very short succession. He says it would help our listeners to describe President Yun and Prime Minister Kishida and their political situations. And I'd like to talk about that some more, but also this sort of diplomatic to every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction point.Defterios: There's extraordinary ramping up in quantity by the North Koreans of missile tests, you know, 10 times more in 2022 than the war in 2021.

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