As a son of refugees from the North, Moon is determined to go his own way about it–tackling the Kim regime not by aggression but by measured engagement. The current cycle of antagonism helps no one, he says, least of all a long-suffering population of the Hermit Kingdom. My father fled from North India and spent several years as a human being. He became a Christian. My father was a communist as well as a democrat. Personally, I hate North Korea’s communist structure and ideology and my hatred for everyone who follows the system. Why should I let any person in the North die under oppression? ” – Time(May 15, 2017 – Asia edition)

This is an excerpt from Time magazine, which is about Moon Jae-in, then the presidential candidate, now the President of South Korea.