On this week’s episode of the Korea Pro Podcast, John and Joon Ha discuss the Sept. 21 DMZ mine blast that injured three South Korean soldiers, including two seriously, and the discovery of a North Korean anti-personnel mine south of the Military Demarcation Line. 

They then turn to the Lee administration’s appointment of Song Young-gil as a special adviser on Korean Peninsula peace and former four-star general Kim Byung-joo as a special adviser on defense. 

The episode also examines the latest dispute over South Korean investment in the U.S., after President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick presented