Podcasts Government HARDtalk Kang Kyung-wha Foreign Minister, South Korea

Kang Kyung-wha Foreign Minister, South Korea

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 2:08 a.m.

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Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed \\u2018deal maker extraordinaire\\u2019, is finding the Korean Peninsula tough going.

For all his claims of friendship with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Pyongyang seems no closer to giving up its nuclear arsenal. America's strategic partnership with South Korea is looking increasingly strained too.

Stephen Sackur interviews South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha. Her country is currently out of step with both the US and Japan; how vulnerable does that make South Korea?

Image: Kang Kyung-wha (Credit: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

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