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[Wang Son-taek] The futility of the ‘principal enemy’ debate

The debate over the “principal enemy” has resurfaced in Korean politics. The controversy arose amid the ongoing local election campaign. It began when some of the conservative candidates across the country demanded that candidates from the progressive camp identify who South Korea’s principal enemy is. Progressive candidates responded that the question itself was a maliciously simplistic, binary trap and countered by asking why such an inappropriate question was being raised in the first place.