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To help heal the Korean peninsula try scientific cooperation too

Research exchanges could help open up North Korea and reduce long-standing tensions with South Korea and its allies -if politicians will allow it, says Mark Zastrow.

By Mark Zastrow

25 April 2018

Korea cartoon

Andrzej Krauze

THE issue of North Korea’s nuclear weapons has seemed intractable for years. But the current flurry of diplomacy on the peninsula has raised hopes that the weapons will be put aside.

South Korean president Moon Jae-in has proven an adept diplomat. His is historic in its own right, just the third between leaders of the nations. It may set the stage for the unprecedented meeting he has brokered between Kim and US president Donald Trump.

There have also been symbolic cultural exchanges: boosting a unified women’s ice hockey team at…

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