Over 61 years after the Korean War began, the United States is still in a state of war with the North Koreans. The North Korean government hopes to change that, however, as a top official arrived in New York today for “exploratory talks” and urged the signing of a peace treaty.
North Korea’s state news agency released a statement on the issue, insisting that the 1953 armistice should be replaced with a permanent end to hostilities and an actual peace treaty between the nations involved in the conflict.
The statement also made it clear that the North Korean government believes that a peace deal would be a key to moving toward nuclear disamament on the Korean Peninsula. The North Korean government successfully tested a nuclear weapon in May, 2009.
The offer of a peace treaty is not new, as North Korean officials have been suggested such a deal for years. In January, 2010 the US State Department angrily rejected the notion of peace with the North Koreans, saying they could “never” accept normalization of relations with the regime.
Our imperial warmongers need bogey men such as the North Koreans and Iranians in order to keep stirring the political "pot-o-fear". To actually have a peace treaty is contrary to their bent nature. How ironic that the American Soyuz now trades with Vietnam a country that our self appointed pooh-bahs once touted as evil incarnate.
We could sign a peace treaty and bring the troops home…but then there would be no base in northeast Asia for U.S. domination.
The US prefers only to win this war by starving the north korean people into submission. Peace can be had now, and N Korea could in 5 years be reunited with the south and because a prosperous country like eastern germany, but of course we cannot let that happen until we "win"
both sides need to pull in their heads…. they are both 3rd world country status , at present …