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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:21 AM Apr 2018

Two Koreas Discuss Official End to 68-Year War, Report Says

Source: Bloomberg News

By Jiyeun Lee
April 17, 2018, 12:22 AM EDT Updated on April 17, 2018, 3:51 AM EDT

South and North Korea are discussing plans to announce an official end to the military conflict between the two countries that are still technically at war, the Munhwa Ilbo newspaper reported, citing an unidentified South Korean official.

At next week’s summit between South Korea President Moon Jae-in and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, the two neighbors may release a joint statement saying they will seek to ease military tension and to end confrontation, according to the report.

A direct phone line between Moon and Kim may be connected around Friday, Moon’s chief of staff, Im Jong-seok, told a briefing Tuesday, adding that it hadn’t been decided when they would hold their first conversation.

No peace treaty has been signed to replace the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, and the U.S. and North Korea have been at loggerheads since formal hostilities ended. A successful summit between Moon and Kim could pave the way for a meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump -- the first between a sitting American president and a North Korean leader.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-17/two-koreas-discuss-announcing-end-to-military-conflict-munhwa-jg35w9vf

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Two Koreas Discuss Official End to 68-Year War, Report Says (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP

Ah, shit. Something else for which trump will try to hog all the credit. (nt) Paladin Apr 2018 #1

This is not going to go over well with Two Scoops Submariner Apr 2018 #2

They might be doing to this to keep Trump out of it IronLionZion Apr 2018 #3

It won't be that quick. See reunification of Germany. DetlefK Apr 2018 #4

How dare they try to make a deal without Donald ... left-of-center2012 Apr 2018 #5

This is what I consider a good news story Scalded Nun Apr 2018 #6

Perhaps the Olympics and related events became a turning point. Chemisse Apr 2018 #7

Paladin

(28,265 posts)

1. Ah, shit. Something else for which trump will try to hog all the credit. (nt)

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:28 AM

Apr 2018

Submariner

(12,504 posts)

2. This is not going to go over well with Two Scoops

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:30 AM

Apr 2018

He wants to bomb and kill people, hopefully nuclear, not have a peace treaty break out and interfere with his war plans. Bolton must be apoplectic after reading this news.

Watch out Iran. You're next.

IronLionZion

(45,462 posts)

3. They might be doing to this to keep Trump out of it

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:31 AM

Apr 2018

Well, they're no longer at war so no need for the US president to do anything on the Korean peninsula anymore. Definitely no need for stupid tweets and threats.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

4. It won't be that quick. See reunification of Germany.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 10:22 AM

Apr 2018

It wasn't until the IIRC 1960s that West-Germany formally accepted the existence of East-Germany as a real state.

And even then they merely coexisted. No war, but no kind of peaceful contact either.

And even then it took massive civil-rights protests (and an epic fuck-up of the east-german government at a press-conference) to bring down the GDR.

Kim Yong Un is in this for the long game. He needs perpetual war. Hatred against the US and their south-korean lackies is what keeps North-Korea from collapsing. Take away that enemy and people in North-Korea start to question Kim's rule.