The Guardian: Kim Jong-un's sister invites South Korean president to Pyongyang
Kim Yo-jong’s meeting with Moon Jae-in was highest-level contact between countries in more than a decade
North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un, has invited the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, to visit Pyongyang at the “earliest date possible” for what would be the first summit between the two nations in more than a decade.
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the North Korean leader, made the overture during a lunch at Seoul’s presidential palace.
She is the first member of Pyongyang’s ruling dynasty to set foot in the South since the end of the 1950-53 Korean war. Kim Yong-nam, North Korea’s ceremonial head of state, also attended the meeting.
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WNU Editor: From avoiding South Korean President Moon Jae-in earlier this year .... No Response From North Korea On South Korea's Offer For Talks (July 20, 2017), to now formally inviting him to visit Pyongyang. That tells me that U.S. pressure and sanctions are working.
More News On Today's South Korean - North Korean Talks
Come visit: South Korea’s leader invited to North Korea -- AP
Kim Jong Un invites South Korean president for summit: South Korea -- Reuters
Kim Jong Un invites S. Korea's Moon to Pyongyang -- AFP
Winter Olympics 2018: North Korea invites South president to Pyongyang -- BBC
Kim Jong-un Invites South Korean Leader to North for Summit Meeting -- New York Times
Kim Jong-un invites South Korean President Moon to Pyongyang -- ABC News Online
Kim Jong Un asks South Korean president to meet in Pyongyang -- UPI
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un invites South Korean president to summit -- DW
North Korea's Kim invites S Korean leader to Pyongyang -- Al Jazeera
Kim Jong-un invites South’s leader Moon to Pyongyang in personal letter delivered by sister -- RT
2 comments:
"That tells me US pressure and sanctions are working." I like your optimism.:-) With that said something definitely appears to be going on.
I wonder what we gave up to get Chinese and Russian cooperation here to the level we have. with that said keeping these sanctions in place is going to be EXTREMELY difficult. Russia, China, and others have done business with North Korea for a very long time. Expecting them to give this up "cold turkey" is going to be hard. It's sort of like abandoning and old and dear friend. As such, some elements within Russia and China simply won't cooperate and the leadership of these countries is going to have a difficult time enforcing the sanctions.
We need the sanctions enforced. We need to do what we can to ensure they are enforced. If we push to hard though, there is going to be a backlash against the powers that be in Russia and China and a risk is run of destabilizing those governments as powerful elements within these countries are going to want to keep their North Korean business relationships. While the current leadership in Russia and China are generally hostile to us, any replacement would be even more hostile to us. We do NOT want to do anything that would destabilize those governments yet we want the sanctions enforced and we want the North Korean threat to us eliminated.
This is definitely a tough balancing act. If DJT can pull this one off, should he get a Nobel Peace Prize? I would say he should but he probably won't. It doesn't matter anyway as long as the threat is eliminated without war.
Unfortunately I think war is inevitable. I desparately hope I am wrong. The diplomatic process does help us in that it buys us time. If hot war should happen today, the US military is not ready for this and homeland security is not ready for this either. This allows us the precious and limited commodity of time, time to get our armed forces ready for the conflict, and time to get homeland security ready to defend our homeland. I do hope and pray the appropriate personnel are using this time wisely.
We want peace. We are striving for peace. Reasonable concessions will certainly be made. As the saying goes, "you want peace, prepare for war."
Sister reported back that it's not so bad.
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