South Koreans are starkly divided over North Korea’s nuclear threat

Associated Press

POHANG, South Korea (AP) — There are two Koreas, North and South. But there’s also more than one South Korea; it’s split into camps with often polar opposite views on the danger posed by their nuclear-armed neighbor to the north. This division in South Korean sentiment has lasted through a tumultuous history of war, dictatorship, poverty and head-spinning though unevenly distributed economic growth. Spend some time in South Korea and you will see reminders everywhere of North Korea’s potential nuclear menace — and a range of ways residents read its actions. The Associated Press interviewed and photographed dozens of South Koreans to illuminate this unique, fragmented perception of their biggest enemy and closest neighbor, North Korea.