South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived on Tuesday in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang for the third summit of the year between the two Koreans. While the other visits were highly aspirational, this summit has a more direct goal – reaching a peace treaty.
Moon was very frank about this, saying “what I want to achieve is peace. Not a tentative change which could be volatile dependent on international situation, but irreversible, permanent, and unwavering peace, regardless of what might happen on the global area.”
That’s likely to be difficult, with the Trump Administration having made clear repeatedly in recent months that they aren’t willing to reach a peace deal yet, and are intending to hold that out as something North Korea can only get after years of additional concessions.
North Korea has resisted giving up any more without being certain they’ll get a peace deal, ending the Korean War that began in 1950. Likewise, South Korea’s President Moon has set himself up as wanting such a deal, with or without US endorsement.
This risks a split between the US and South Korea, as the two sides have seen differences shaping up in the past several months on how to approach North Korea diplomacy, and the US has increasingly chosen to negotiate independent of the wishes of its long-time allies in South Korea.
I don’t fault N Korea at all for insisting we stop saying we are at war with N Korea before they give up their nuclear weapons . If we insist we are still in a 70 year war , than N korea may need every weapon they have any day .
Evidence of John Bolton joining the administration
North and South Korea should as sovereign nations decide what they want. The USA hates peace, sovereignty, independence and revels in war and violence, bullying and invasions.
If the USA cared at all about its “partner” South Korea it would want it to be in peace with its neighbor, not being a military base full of US weapons and troops for threatening the neighbor it wants to befriend.
When NKorea get serious about denuclearizing,
we should talk,
not until.
This has always been their game,
concessions first,
and then no follow through.
Enough.
North Korea is serious, it is the US that wants to neuter NK and then dictate terms that are completely unreasonable and then bomb them. SK would be wise to throw the terrorist US out of its country and soon so a peace can be realized.
NKorea has never been “serious” and
slinging ICBM’s over Japan, threatening Guam, Hawaii and the west coast was a serious provocation.
SKorea needs the US counter weight to the Norks and ChiCom’s,
they aren’t as naive as you.
Your talking points are straight from the MSM..all bs, and all pro war…why are you here again..yeah?? North Korea is no angel, but they are making gains to have a peaceful outcome with South Korea.
North Korea would be suicidal NOT to have a deterrent to Uncle Sam, who is the biggest instigator of terror, and murder period.
Japan, and South Korea are wise to the US corporate war machine, and have plans to remove them from their respective countries.
And your hate-America-first talking points are all the standard naivete.
Provoking the US was a mistake, no deals until denuclearization.
LOL, OK let’s see how long your going to wait for SK and Japan to tell the US to leave, lunacy.
The only America haters are those pushing the war agenda, and appeasing US hegemony which would be you! Japan might not be able to leave, but South Korea can force the US out if it wants both economically and with force if necessary. Grow a pair, and realize that the world is no longer uni-polar…being what the US wants when it wants it…
If either asks/tells us to leave we will,
just like with the Philippines.
We don’t need them, they need us.
But neither will for the foreseeable future.
Leaving them to fend for themselves re. the ChiComs
would be suicidal, and they (not you) know it.
Answer the question and quit deflecting.
To what “question” do you refer?
There is a lot of cross traffic here.
When is the US going to get serious about denuclearizing, as it committed to doing in 1968 with the NPT?
If the US isn’t serious about denuclearizing yet, why should anyone bother talking with it about nukes — or anything else?
The US hasn’t threaten NKorea by shooting ICBM’s over their country
or threatened to use nukes on their country like NK has with Japan, Guam, Hawaii and the west coast.
The provocations started with Kim.
Stokr is not quite familiar with what MacArthur proposed…curious, when, exactly, did NK fire an ICBM over the US ?
It was Japan, an ally,
then threatened Guam, Hawaii and potentially the US west coast.
Had little Kim minded his own business,
not much would be different, but he didn’t.
The US has been waging economic warfare against NK for decades, plus with the US obsession with defanging any country that wants to be independent and sovereign, NK has the right, and duty to counter US hegemony, and terror at every turn. Your such a lapdog! Go figure with your silly use of the word naive..which defines you to a tee…
Pakistan and India have nukes,
the US hasn’t attempted to “defang” either,
why?
Because they mind their own business.
I love it when you antiwar folks defend the most barbaric, inhuman nightmare regime on the planet,
great form, doncha think?
So, you are corrected. Japan harbours US nuclear, and other first strike assets by choice ( tho, not the citizens choice)…are you saying North Korea has no right of defense ?
I don’t see any “corrected”.
Kim shot ICBM’s over Japan, a US ally,
who was not threatening Kim.
Kim, started this dance, and it isn’t going to be over until
he DE-nuclear-izes.
I know you don’t “see” what’s corrected, you never do, and likely never will.
“Japan harbours (sp) US nuclear … ” which is not the same as using them to intimidate their neighbors as Kim frequently does.
There fixed it for you.
Thanx for the spell check, you found your niche….your president needs you badly.
Thanx for dodging my point, noted.
Your point isn’t dodged at all. Your position that when someone demonstrates they are willing and able to defend themselves, it is a threat to you, isnt arguable, it just defines who you are.
Kim felt he could get away with
escalating intimidating behaviors once again,
he was wrong.
And the result now is,
we are involved in the most significant peace talks since the war
.
Something neither Clinton, Bush or 0bama were able to achieve.
That is the point.
you are not making a point, son
Trump ball washing is not a good argument