Posted on 08/29/2022 6:07:58 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis has repeatedly urged Koreans on the peninsula to ‘work for peace’
Pope Francis has asked Pyongyang to invite him to North Korea, saying in a televised interview on Friday that he would not turn down a chance to visit and work for peace.
A potential papal visit to the isolated, nuclear-armed country was previously floated in 2018 when Seoul's former president Moon Jae-in embarked on a round of diplomacy with Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong Un.
Moon, who is Catholic, said during a summit that Kim told him the pontiff would be "enthusiastically" welcomed.
Pope Francis replied at the time that he would be willing to go if he received an official invitation.
But Pyongyang has largely cut off contact with Seoul following the collapse of a second summit between Kim and then-US president Donald Trump in 2019, which has left talks at a standstill.
"When they invite me -- that is to say, please invite me -- I won't say no," Pope Francis told South Korea's state broadcaster KBS in an interview that aired Friday.
"The goal is simply fraternity," he added.
Ties between North and South Korea have been at a frosty low since Seoul inaugurated a hawkish new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, in May.
Yoon offered aid to the North in return for denuclearisation, but Kim's regime ridiculed the plan.
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What does it profit a man, if he gain the whole Pyongyang, and lose his own Seoul...
Kim will co-opt him and he will be worshipping communism openly.
Bergoglio was co-opted long ago.
Yah.
“And I would be happy to help beat any stubborn North Koreans,” the pope added.
I see what you did there.
Is that common, where a Pope would directly ask the head of a nation to invite him over for espresso, foccacia and photographs? Seems a little pushy or shallow.
Birds of a feather...
Antipope Bergolio loves to hang out with satanic fellow Marxists.
His task should be spreading the Gospel, not pushing for world “peace”.
Bergoglio seeks an audience with a fellow, ruthless, amoral dictator; yet, refuses to grant an audience to his own cardinals who had presented him with a dubia regarding his amoral Amoris Laetia almost six years ago.
Everyone thinks they can be Trump, only better.
Lmao.
Communists gonna communist
The “Pope” should go. I hope he does. It’s a good thing.
Certainly possible.
You win the internet today!
Well done.
Good one.
A vampire cannot enter without an invite.
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