Recently, domestic events have so dominated the news that foreign affairs coverage has been reduced to only occasional stories. The Trump election was an unavoidable theme. The aftermath of North Korea’s fifth nuclear test in September continues to draw some notice. Finally, the decision to sign an intelligence sharing agreement with Japan aroused some responses. Overall, however, the inward-looking focus of the Korean public as it awaits the fate of the Park Geun-hye government has left us without a lot to say about developments that ordinarily would have been newsworthy.

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