Key takeaways from AP’s examination of South Korea’s split views on North Korea’s nuclear threats

Associated Press

POHANG, South Korea (AP) — The Associated Press interviewed and photographed dozens of South Koreans for a detailed look at the nation’s stark division over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s headlong pursuit of nuclear-tipped missiles targeting the South and its major ally and protector, the United States. How South Korea sees its northern rival is a famously complicated subject, split along deep societal fault lines: Age, wealth, politics, status, history, sex. The result is that some see little danger in North Korea’s threatening rhetoric, weapons tests and aggressive military maneuvers. Others are stocking bunkers with goods meant to get them through a nuclear strike.