Top officials in both North Korea and South Korea have issued statements today expressing support for a major summit aimed at improving negotiations between the two nations.
North Korean President Kim Jong-un made considerable statements to this effect on state-run television during his annual New Year’s speech, saying that there is “no reason not to hold the highest-level talks” with the south on upgrading ties.
South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said this was a meaningful opportunity, and one which could lead to “practical and frank discussions on all issues of mutual concern.”
South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s New Year’s Day Speech wasn’t nearly so hopeful, talking up military readiness as the only way to lay the groundwork for an eventual reunification with North Korea, though she too expressed hope for an end to the division between the two nations.
Korean Conflict — Destroy socialism in the bud
I was age 11 in 1951 when it seemed like all the young men in town were bleeding and dying in the frozen hills of the 38th Parallel. A rich man’s war actually, as only the most wealthy people in town had a TV set and from school history class to mainstream media the Korean Conflict was all about how impoverished and enslaved we would be without High Society ruling the economy.
For capitalism is the illusion that if we allow High Society to keep all the profit, that they would never use it to enslave us. You see, it has always been that way and how are we to know any different?
How will the US interfere in any prospects of peace this time?