The latest poll conducted by the Korean National Assembly and Korea Research: Koreans’ overwhelming support for engagement with North Korea in the New Year.

• 81% support the North-South Korean summit meeting in 2018
• 71% support South Korea’s sending a special envoy to North Korea
• 67.8% support postponing the US-Korea Joint Military Drills to periods after Winter Olympics
• 60% regard North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics very important
• 50% think that the North-South Korean family reunions should be held during the Lunar New Year in 2018 regardless of current tension.
• 47.4% believe that inter-Korean relations will improve in the New Year
• 42.8 think that the new security policy of the United States doesn’t help Korea
• 55.2% think positively that the Korean government’s reevaluation of the 2015 Korea-Japan bilateral deal regarding Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery (“Comfort Women”)
• 70.2% support keeping the Peace Statue (“the bronze comfort girl statute”) in the original place
• 67.2% expect that China’s economic retaliation of Korea caused by the deployment of THAAD in Korea will gradually lessen
• 62.4% have faith in Japan-Korea’s bilateral relationship. A majority of Korean believe that historical issues be treated separately from areas where two nations can cooperate, such as security in Northeast Asia and economic, social and cultural areas.

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Published by World Beyond War.