Friday, April 27, 2018

Kim Jong Un Meets Moon Jae-in

If you're below the age of 50 you've never seen anything like this. For the first time one of the dictators of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, met with the president of not entirely free South Korea (which is currently under its sixth regime since 1948), Moon Jae-in.



The two Koreas vowed to end the war that has been simmering for 68 years and left 1 million dead. They also vowed to denuclearize the peninsula. The peace summit is scheduled for June, the anniversary of the start of the conflict, in neutral Singapore.

There's no guarantee of anything. Cynics and chickenhawks are saying Kim is just biding time while he "perfects" his weapons, which are currently built with laughably crappy 1960s technology. They claim this is like the moment when Neville Chamberlain met Hitler and got that piece of paper to wave in the breeze, which Hitler than ignored and invaded Poland anyway.

I'm not so sure of that. Kim is a rational person. He knows that he has no chance of winning any war and he's not crazy and simply wants the world to burn in nuclear hellfire. Kim is a Western raised and educated man who sees that military action is futile and that maybe he can leverage his nuclear arsenal to get peace terms that don't end with him facing crimes against humanity and execution. Any peace that can end with him continuing to live in his palace and the United States off the peninsula is worth dismantling his arsenal.



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