South Korea’s Yoon calls for unification with North, on holiday marking 1919 uprising against Japan’s colonial rule

South Korea’s president lambasted North Korea on Friday over what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean peninsula, weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un rejected the idea of peaceful unification and threatened to occupy the South in the event of war.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol spoke on March 1 Independence Movement Day, a holiday marking a 1919 Korean uprising against Japanese colonial rule.

“Now, we must move toward a free, unified Korean peninsula,” Yoon said in a televised speech….