In This Office, the Fading Dream of a Unified Korea Lives On
Briefly

"The job came with a chauffeur-driven car, secretaries, a spacious office and a mahogany desk with a mother-of-pearl nameplate. But Mr. Sohn has never been to South Hamgyeong, because it is in North Korea."
"South Korea has never formally accepted the division of the Korean Peninsula, which was imposed by the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of World War II."
"Sohn Yang-Young, the appointed governor of South Hamgyeong Province, says his own grandchildren don't share his passion for reunifying the Koreas."
"I always keep myself ready to go up there to take over, Mr. Sohn said in an interview at his office in the Committee for the Five northern Korean Provinces."
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