South Korea Sees US by Its Side Regardless of Who Is in White House
- Vice unification minister says elite defections have climbed
- Kim Soo Kyung says North faces ‘critical damage’ after floods
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South Korea’s government isn’t worried about which candidate wins the US presidential election since it expects to work with whoever takes the White House to confront the nuclear threat from North Korea, according to a senior official in Seoul.
Vice Unification Minister Kim Soo Kyung added in an interview with Bloomberg that while it has gotten far harder for North Koreans to escape the repressive state, there has been a jump in the flow of elites defecting to South Korea under Kim Jong Un’s regime.