Complicating matters further is the need for Park to devise a viable response to a new diplomatic charm offensive by North Korea’s usually charmless leader, Kim Jong-un. Park remains, rightly, a skeptic concerning Kim’s motives; but the spectacle of the North’s second-highest-ranking official appearing suddenly at the Asian Games earlier this month created a frisson of excitement that perhaps Kim the Younger may actually want to improve relations.
让情况更加复杂的是朴槿惠需要找到可行的应对之道来对付常常毫无魅力可言的朝鲜领导人金正恩的外交魅力攻势。朴槿惠正确地对金正恩的动机保持怀疑；但朝鲜二号人物在本月早些时候出现在亚运会的场景给人们带来了一丝兴奋之情——也许小金真的希望改善朝韩关系。