Posted on 04/26/2018 5:35:31 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea’s Phony Peace Ploy
By Nicholas Eberstadt
Mr. Eberstadt is a founding director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.
April 25, 2018
WASHINGTON — When the government of South Korea announced last week that it would begin work on a formal peace treaty with North Korea, to be discussed at a summit meeting on April 27, its so-called Sunshine Policy of engagement gave way to P.T. Barnum-style, a-sucker-born-every-minute diplomacy.
Fighting in the Korean War ended in 1953 with just an armistice, and South Korean officials are calling for a “permanent peace.” But it is not merely unrealistic to hope that Kim Jong-un, the leader of the North, will offer the South real and lasting peace; it is delusional.
If the past is any guide, the North will offer the South unenforceable verbiage. And if the South accepts a phony peace ploy, it will expose itself to more manipulation by the government in Pyongyang — not only in its domestic politics, but potentially also in its alliance with the United States.
Let’s begin with the obvious. A peace treaty between two countries is a legal document that requires one sovereign state to recognize the other sovereign state’s right to exist. (Think Camp David accords of 1978, when Egypt agreed to recognize Israel.) Yet North Korea cannot commit to any such thing with South Korea, not least because the existential objective of its ruling family, the Kims, has been to wipe the state of South Korea off the face of the earth.
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Sour grapes.
It may be genuine, and may have to do with this:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3650429/posts
No surprise that a poltical pressure group, who depends on donations from anti North Korean groups to earn a living, wrote this.
Political propaganda, not news. How about they wait and see the actual agreement instead of penning this sort of self serving emotion based propaganda?
It certainly could be phony.But I’m of the opinion that this whole thing will be settled,one way or the other,in Beijing.If the Butchers of Beijing conclude that a nuclear armed NK is in *China’s* best interests they’ll be allowed to keep them (even if it’s *secretly*).If not,then NK will lose them.
As always with The Times, the agenda drives the analysis.
Screw the Slimes!
Phony like $50 million and champagne? Just checking the selective recall of history?
Whatever the eventual result will be, it is true that NK is trying to achieve its goal. It may not get there and crash, but it will give all its efforts. NK has been consistent in the pursuit of its goal. This fact does not change whether NYT and Deep State hate Trump or not. It should be factored into any action toward N. Korea.
And, of course, the Iran Peace “treaty” done with Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy was the ultimate of diplomacy, negotiations, and pure genius.
Shove it, NYT. Shove it deep. Shove it often.
Silly little journalists.
Anyways. Not much new.
It will just implode after Kim asks for too much—he’s now set the table for that—and Trump will resent the shakedown and walk.
It may have to do with that as well.
Hey, NYT! This wouldn’t have been written if PIAPS was the President, would it? You’d be hammering on the point as to why PIAPS hasn’t been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
We already know that the left will talk down about any peace deal president Trump makes with North Korea. The left only cares about politics. They can never give credit to the president they hate. It will be so great if the so called novice accomplishes something all the real politicians couldn’t come close to completing.
The Left will go insane when Donald Trump negotiates the end of the Korean War on highly favorable terms.
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