Kim Jong-un told South Korea he was sorry about the killing at sea of a South Korean government official. But as Tufts professor Sung-Yoon Lee tells The World, it was not much of an apology. He says it’s part of a cycle of escalation and deescalation, a strategy that North Korea has mastered.
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