North Korea has just staged their parade, celebrating 70th anniversary of founding, without the customary display of nuclear missiles. Theme was peace and economic development. “Experts believe that North Korea cut out the nuclear missiles to show President Trump......
President Moon has more pressing problems than Un. The idea Kim Jong Un is any less a threat because he replaced missiles with flowers is irresponsible. If Kim Jong Un wants to put nuclear missiles in their 70th parade it should have been done. Masking real intentions is not going to be believed by most Americans.
Demilitarization has to proceed with transparency and disarmament of ICBMs and shorter range missiles that could strike any country that is in the neighborhood. North Korea has to have faith in it's allies to defend the country beyond any other measure.
I am quite confident China sees North Korea as a measure to it's own security. There is no reason for North Korea to be armed with nuclear missiles that only makes it a target. Kim Jong Un needs to put his people's safety first and removing nuclear capacity for North Korea serves that purpose. South Korea has lived in a peaceful posture since July 27, 1953. Kim Jong Un needs to meet that same standard.
Honeymoon over for South Korea’s president (click here)
Author: Hyung-A Kim, ANU
Public support for South Korean President Moon Jae-in has plummeted. Peaking at 83 per cent following his agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to end the Korean War, his approval rating has crashed to 49 per cent — the lowest since he took office.
The biggest reason for this drop is South Korea’s weakest job growth in nearly nine years: the economy added just 5,000 new jobs over a year earlier, the smallest annual gain since January 2010 amid the global financial crisis. Despite Moon’s pledge to become a ‘jobs president’, he has failed to turn South Korea’s unemployment crisis around while also failing to improve economic growth which is forecast to be just 2.8 per cent this year....
