South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas on Apr 27, 2018. (File Photo: Korea Summit Press Pool/Pool via Reuters)
The Guardian: Korean peninsula will be united by 2045, says Seoul amid Japan row
President Moon Jae-in plans joint Olympics with North Korea in 2032 and calls on Japan to contemplate its wartime past
South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, has vowed to achieve the unification of the Korean peninsula by 2045, a century after the end of the second world war.
In a speech to mark the 74th anniversary on Thursday of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 rule, Moon also said South Korea would “gladly join” hands with its former colonial ruler to defuse an escalating trade dispute whose roots lie in the country’s bitter wartime history.
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Update #1: South Korea's Moon Vows to Seek Reunification With North Korea by 2045 (Sputnik)
Update #2: South Korea President Promises North Korean Denuclearization by 2022, Unified Korea by 2045 (PJ Media)
WNU Editor: I guess South Korean President Moon Jae-in did not get this message .... North Korea Says Talks With South Korea Are Over. Fires More Missiles Into The Sea.
2 comments:
Moon is so weird. He is beyond gullible. at first I thought he's playing good cop and Trump is playing bad cop. But everyone knows denuclearisation - even if it started 5 years ago - would not be finished by 2022. And promising unification by 2045...based on what? This is so stupid and makes us look foolish.
Here's what's happening
1. North Korean people are hostages in a nuclear show down
2. China is using their influence to make Trump look bad
3. This will continue and only get worse until elections are over. The Chinese have trillions to lose if Trump gets another term. Literally trillions at stake. Not one trillion. Multiple. We are talking about the single largest economic realignment on the face of the earth. ..of history. Trillions. Just the trade imbalance per year exceeds 500bn. so take that for the few decades the realignment will last. Trillions over trillions. On top all the IP theft. That's estimated to be between 2-5 trillion alone. We might be talking 20 trillion realignment. Enough for every single US tax payer to buy a swimming pool. It is massive.
Hence why war is so tempting. A small war costs 200bn. A larger war like Iraq is 1-2 trillion.
It's everyone's guess what's next but one thing is for sure:
The person with most to lose is Xi. He knows that if he doesn't deliver he will die. Maybe car accident or plane accident more likely. Or a sudden sickness. He knows it's inevitable. If Xi fails to deliver on the economic goals he set - which are unobtainable by now - he will be replaced and it won't be an enjoyable time. His family tree might be at stake
Obviously a war in North Korea would be terrible for China and a geostrategic mistake so he cannot do that-not even via the nuclear pitbull model they use on the entire world by now. No. ..Xi has No ore good options. .. my guess is he is considering slapping Vietnam .. likely during US elections 2020....Russia Iran north Korea and China will coordinate to get rid of Trump and they will try to make it all look chaotic and cnn in their ego trip will help them instead of seeing what Trump is doing. It's so sad
Denuclearization by 2022 and reunification by 2024 this seems rather ambitious but I think South Korean leader Moon Jae-in has just given us a glimpse into what is actually going on. To borrow the term that the editor uses from time to time, when he has a strong hunch on something, my "gut" has told me for quite some time that we are actually far closer to resolving this situation than is generally understood. For obvious reasons, leaders don't want to get hopes up to quickly but I strongly suspect Moon has just supplied us with a glimpse of where we actually are.
As for the North Korean actions, when the editor first posted on this, my thoughts were this appears to be more show for domestic consumption than an actual threat. Now we hear from Moon and his statements tend to corroborate my initial instincts on that.
If Moon is correct, more progress has been made than I thought!! If someone would have asked me before this, I would have said a reasonable time frame to expect nuclear weapons that can hit South Korea to be denuclearized toward the end of Mike Pence's second term or whomever Trump's chosen successor is. I wasn't even thinking about reunification. As for nuclear weapons that could hit the US, we are probably much closer on that as Trump's statement after the first meeting would suggest. At this point, IMHO reelecting Trump is going to be of paramount importance to give us the best chance of continuing to move forward. As the only new variable to this equation, I credit him as the primary reason we have achieved what we have. To remove him from the equation now, would introduce instability to the process and risks undermining what has been achieved.
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