South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Young-se recently renounced the idea that the country’s diplomacy “should walk the line between the U.S. and China,” suggested by some public opinion.
He used an analogy from Aesop’s Fable to describe the outcome of that mentality.
In an interview with Korean broadcaster KBS on May 19, Kwon said if South Korea continues to play strategic ambiguity between Washington and Beijing, it will end up like “the Bat in Aesop Fable, abandoned by either side, which won’t end well.”
The Ministry of Unification is an executive department responsible for inter-Korean affairs and promoting peace and unification of the two Koreas. President Yoon Suk-yeol appointed Kwon to the post in April last year….