Reply #2: It is a good question. [View All]

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South Korea has worked patiently for years to reach and engage the North. Their long term goal is a peaceful reunification of the country. Of course there is the possibility that the North would simply restart the civil war, but how realistic is that?

Obviously what we, the US, should do if we want peace in the region, is to start bilateral negotiations with North Korea to end the state of hostilities that has existed since the truce agreement, to move to normal relations with the North, including full diplomatic relations and the non-aggression pact that the North rightly insists is the basis for negotiations on the dismantling of its nuclear weapons program. What exactly would we have to lose with such a change in policy?

My prediction is that the stalinist system in the north would not survive ten years of normalized economic and political relations. I could be wrong as of course the Chinese system simply mutated from stalinist to fascist and perhaps NK would follow that path instead, but China did not have the equivalent of South Korea.