Korean peninsula will be united by 2045, says Seoul amid Japan row
President Moon Jae-in plans joint Olympics with North Korea in 2032 and calls on Japan to contemplate its wartime past
South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, has vowed to achieve the unification of the Korean peninsula by 2045, a century after the end of the second world war.
In a speech to mark the 74th anniversary on Thursday of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 rule, Moon also said South Korea would “gladly join” hands with its former colonial ruler to defuse an escalating trade dispute whose roots lie in the country’s bitter wartime history.