South Korea's Yoon calls for unification, on holiday marking 1919 uprising against colonial Japan
by Hyung-Jin Kim
Mar 01, 2024
2 minutes
South Korea’s president lambasted North Korea on Friday over what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula, weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rejected the idea of peaceful unification and threatened to occupy the South in the event of war.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol spoke on March 1 Independence Movement Day, a holiday marking colonial rule.
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