Historic Meeting Between North and South Korea

The images coming out of the meeting between North and South Korea are definitely historic. Having no particular expertise on the issue, I won’t try to analyze it or comment about what’s likely to come from it. Rather, I will simply post some links to what I have found to be interesting takes on it.

We’ll start with President Trump’s tweet this morning:

After a furious year of missile launches and Nuclear testing, a historic meeting between North and South Korea is now taking place. Good things are happening, but only time will tell!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 27, 2018

I’m not sure why this one is part of a Comey thread:

KOREAN WAR TO END! The United States, and all of its GREAT people, should be very proud of what is now taking place in Korea!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 27, 2018

From CNN

Leaders of the two Koreas have agreed to end the Korean War, 65 years after hostilities ceased, in a wide-ranging joint announcement struck Friday, that includes working towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

BREAKING NEWS: North and South Korea will sign a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War later this year, 65 years after hostilities ceased https://t.co/cKEMmhZdvj pic.twitter.com/VSJ7sAs9VU

— CNN (@CNN) April 27, 2018

Oddly, I could not find a story about the meeting at the time of this writing on the front page at FoxNews.com. In clicking around, I did find this:

From FoxNews

Since Kim took over North Korea in 2011, the regime rapidly expanded and tested its missile arsenal with weapons capable of striking the U.S. mainland. His end goal, he once said, was to “establish the equilibrium of real force with the U.S. and make the U.S. rulers dare not talk about military options” for the North.

Jonah Goldberg, at the National Review, had an interested take on Why North Korea Isn’t Going to Give Up Its Nukes:

Domestically, accepting the legitimacy of South Korea’s government would be tantamount to delegitimizing North Korea’s government. The Kim regime is similarly convinced, perhaps with reason, that it needs a nuclear deterrent to survive. Agreeing to disarm, in the leaders’ minds, would be suicidal. Moreover, they’ve been telling their own citizens that having nukes is an existential imperative.

Some interesting tweets:

This historic meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea happened because of President Trump. The Korean War officially came to an end & a brighter future for the Korean Peninsula was made possible because of President Trump.

Other presidents talked, Trump took action.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) April 27, 2018

The likely reason that North and South Korea decided to end the Korean War is because a nuclear-triggered earthquake set North Korea back years in their development of Nukes.

Now North Korea has no choice but to buy themselves more time.

Sorry but this is not Trump’s doing.

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 27, 2018

North and South Korea sign proclamation to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and potentially end the Korean War. I advise caution. In 1938 Chamberlain met w/Hitler & signed Munich Accords. Chamberlain claimed peace, Hitler later said it was just a piece of paper. /more

— Allen West (@AllenWest) April 27, 2018

No matter what happens in the coming months, it’s sure to be interesting.