A hot summer in Korea?
Today is the second day of talks between six nations in Beijing, where the North Korean nuclear development is being discussed. North Korea has already offered to abandon its nuclear weapons, but are they sincere? As North Korea is still "technically" at war with the U.S., it wants to negotiate a non-aggression pact and get economic aid. Meanwhile, I found this story at the Digital Chosun about a comment from South Korea's unification minister:
Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said Tuesday the Gwangju Democratic Uprising of 1980 was thwarted by an "invisible hand." The minister was telling an Uri Party policy committee how the destiny of the Korean Peninsula has been controlled by outside forces for the last 100 years.
"A hundred years ago, the Philippines became a U.S. colony and the Korean Peninsula a Japanese one owing to the Taft-Katsura Agreement” of 1905, Chung said.
“The division of the nation and Korean War were not our will either," nor was the failure of the Gwangju Uprising.
A century later [2005] Chung promised “a hot summer in which our fate will be decided not by North Korea, China, the United States, Japan or Russia, but by our own pride and self-determination."
Chung recently told a weekly magazine the division and war happened without regard to the will of the Korean people, as did the suppression of the Gwangju Uprising. The remarks “mean we must actively decide our own fate,” the minister explained.
I'm following the talks and I'm hoping for the best. In fact, a nuclear-free Korea would mean the U.S. would also have to make a commitment to get rid of all nuclear war ships in the region. Perhaps they can move them back to California? Or dismantle them once and for all? Hmmm, as usual, I suppose I am being to idealistic...
Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said Tuesday the Gwangju Democratic Uprising of 1980 was thwarted by an "invisible hand." The minister was telling an Uri Party policy committee how the destiny of the Korean Peninsula has been controlled by outside forces for the last 100 years.
"A hundred years ago, the Philippines became a U.S. colony and the Korean Peninsula a Japanese one owing to the Taft-Katsura Agreement” of 1905, Chung said.
“The division of the nation and Korean War were not our will either," nor was the failure of the Gwangju Uprising.
A century later [2005] Chung promised “a hot summer in which our fate will be decided not by North Korea, China, the United States, Japan or Russia, but by our own pride and self-determination."
Chung recently told a weekly magazine the division and war happened without regard to the will of the Korean people, as did the suppression of the Gwangju Uprising. The remarks “mean we must actively decide our own fate,” the minister explained.
I'm following the talks and I'm hoping for the best. In fact, a nuclear-free Korea would mean the U.S. would also have to make a commitment to get rid of all nuclear war ships in the region. Perhaps they can move them back to California? Or dismantle them once and for all? Hmmm, as usual, I suppose I am being to idealistic...
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