South Koreans Fear Trump More Than Kim Jong Un
BY JESSICA KWONG ON 12/24/17 AT 9:30 AM
South Koreans fear North Korea’s leader — but apparently not as much as the president of its ally.
“I think almost any South Korean you talk to would say they're much more frightened of Donald Trump than they are of Kim Jung Un,” said Barbara Demick, who lived in the South for more than four years and authored Nothing to Envy: The Ordinary Lives of North Koreans.
That’s because South Koreans have grown accustomed to the threat that its neighbor to the north poses, Demick said in a podcast of The Ezra Klein Show released on Thursday. North Korea is “always threatening to turn Seoul into a sea of fire and unleash a thermonuclear war, and people in Seoul just shrug about it,” said Demick, who also worked as the Los Angeles Times’ bureau chief in South Korea’s capital.
The Pyongyang has tested South Korea by sinking a ship and shelling an island near the border between the two countries, “but they know that if they start a war with South Korea, which is double their size in population, it's the end of their country, it's the end of their system,” Demick said.
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