Koreans in general are very generous about misrepresentations when it’s another Korean doing the misrepresenting. - Brian Reynolds Myers

[T]hose who haven’t yet grasped the ideological realities of the [Korean] peninsula probably never will.

Everybody really is the "other" for North Koreans.

While watching Moon and Kim disport themselves on Mount Paektu — the modern nationalist myth of the ancient iconicity of which mountain our media swallowed hook, line and sinker — I was struck by a sobering thought: It has already become easier to imagine Seoul with a Kim Il Sung statue than to imagine Pyongyang without one. Not a lot easier, but easier. We may all disagree about what exactly a North-South league will mean, or even whether it will come to pass. But let’s stop the denials — the old-fashioned denials — that this is what the two Koreas are working on.