Talks between North and South Korea continue to be held at a rapid pace. On Friday, generals from the two Koreas are planning to meet again in Panmunjom truce village, this time to discuss implementation of deals reached at last month’s summit.
Other topics for the meeting include the possibility of setting up a joint military committee between the two Koreas, and possibly conducting joint field research on the Han River.
Anything “general-level” is considered big, and even moreso with the large number of meetings being held in Panmunjom, with delegations getting together seemingly several times a week on different topics. Just this week, a separate meeting agreed on disarming guards at Panmunjom, with the future plan to be 35 troops from each side in the village, and no guns.
North Korea’s General Kim Hyong Ryong says that the goal of the talks is a “stable peace,” with the idea of turning the Korean Peninsula from the “Hottest spot in the globe” to a cradle of peace and prosperity.
Can you hear that Mr. Anderson? It is the sound of inevitability, it is the sound peace as Uncle Sam packing its military bags and shleping it out of there.
How dare any sovereign countries make arrangements without our permission, especially even considering a terrible idea like peace???
The whole story line of why the US military should be in Korea is being destroyed by these Korean upstart generals. There’s a new US 4-star general on the scene, General Robert Abrams, who isn’t being invited to these “general-levels,” doesn’t even speak the language (how do you say “peace” in Korean?), and he still has to pretend that he’s needed as the commander of US and ROK forces with an outdated basis for existence. . . .from the Combined Forces Command website: