Posted on 05/13/2018 5:24:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Despite several years of escalating missile and nuclear tests, the outlook for peace on the Korean peninsular is rosier now than anytime since North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un took power in 2011. The 34-year-old despot has agreed to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday and U.S. President Donald Trump in coming weeks to discuss denuclearization.
Kim has pledged an end to weapons tests and agreed to dismantle the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site (though geologists report it may already have collapsed). He has indicated, according to South Korean interlocutors, that any agreement to denuclearize would not be contingent on U.S. troops leaving South Korea.
In response, South Korea has halted the propaganda that blares over the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, which has separated the two states since the 1950-53 Korean War. Moon has also indicated he may submit a formal declaration of peace with North Korea — the neighbors remain technically at war as only an armistice was ever signed — at the U.N. General Assembly. Seoul has offered economic and political concessions if Pyongyang permits nuclear inspectors into its military facilities....
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Imagine the absolute horror that the Media(D) will experience if the ROK and the DPRK take down the DMZ with Trump’s help! They will pee into their Gucci shoes...
“Peninsular”? Who wrote this, Jack Kennedy?
And try to somehow credit obummo with it
Long term end game. More cheap labor and more imports to the USA. Sure hope Trump is on top of this long game.
Like if the US made Haiti the 51st state...
Dump it on the Sorks. They owe us big time.
More crap from the idiot press
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Wow!
I expect there’s been planning for years should reunification ever happen.
The most overwhelming part to me, is the mental and physical health of the North Korean people. It’s not easy for us to comprehend their national and individual scars. They will be profoundly disoriented for a very long time. To recover from the darkness, to learn entirely new ideas that their brothers to the south take for granted...to watch impossible things happen..
It will be amazing to watch. If it happens.
I think Lil Kim would insist on being in charge. That would turn the South into the North which would be a bad thing.
South Korea knows what they are going to be dealing with, even if they themselves cannot appreciate the task in hand. Tough times for the next five years, but I think it is doable.
And the Nork guards who shot those who tried to escape? Asia. Not the East German Krauts who are western.
It would essentially be a repeat of Germany’s reunification, pouring a massive amount of money into building infrastructure in the areas that lack it while many in the “unifying” areas would try to move into the developed areas.
Germany’s mistake was building a lot of infrastructure in East Germany when many people moved west and those that stayed didn’t have many kids.
Wow - they HATE Trump.
South Korea is a first world country, but it has problems with the liberal secular socialism depressing birth rates. One solution they could adopt is letting North Korea send them Christians, independent thinkers and others in the gulags to South Korea.
South Korea gets people to bolster its population. North Korea looks good for freeing prisoners and reduces internal tensions.
South Korea gets to educate those free souls on how to live in the developed world, knowing some could go back in a few years to educate the North.
I’ve watched several documentaries on North Korea and have always been struck by how ...gray it is. Life itself seems gray there.
I believe in the adaptive nature of humans, so I have hope for the future in Korea. But I see it in terms of decades rather than a few years.
Consider the future employment of the 100’s of thousands of goose-steppers and their officers.
What’s their future look like ?
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