World Affairs:.
North Korea -US Summit is Welcome – Many Pitfalls Ahead
Passing through a bumpy and
uncertain road with all signs of
possible collapse the US President
Donald Trump and North Korea’s
President Kim Jong-un have finally
sat in June 12, 2018 Summit and
released a Joint Statement.
North Korea’s state media has
welcomed the outcome of the
Summit as “historic.” It said, Mr.Kim
and Mr.Trump have decided to
leave the past behind. The world
would see a major change.
We know, before the Summit,
Trump gave all available bad
names to Kim. “Little rocket man on
a suicide mission for himself and
his regime”-was one among them.
After the Summit, Trump praised
Kim as “talented”, “very smart guy”,
“a great negotiator” who “loves his
country and people very much”.
Both leaders have agreed in
the Joint Statement to establish
relations between the two
countries; build a lasting and stable
peace regime on the Korean
peninsula; work towards complete
denuclearisation of the Korean
Peninsula; recover the remains of
the prisoners of War and those
missing in action and follow up with
the implementation of Summit’s
outcomes; The US President has
committed to provide security
guarantees to North Korea. On
June 13, 2018, Trump has
announced the halting of annual
US-South Korea military drills. He
also announced that he wants to
remove the 28,500 US troops from
South Korea.
South Korean President Moon
Jae-in said: “What is important was
that the people of US, Japan and
Koreans, have all been able to
escape the threat of war, nuclear
weapons and missiles.”
The Summit as well as its
outcome are welcome.
July - 2018
Those in the world under the
influence of western media saw the
Summit not as the talks between
the heads of two states on an equal
footing. For them, it was an exercise
of a dominant power to bring a
defiant and weak country back to
its senses. These types of people
had been showing North Korea as
a monster and as a serious threat
because it had built up the nuclear
weapons and challenge the US.
Here they close their eyes to the
fact that it is the activities of
intervention, threat of war and
massive deployment of arms by the
US in the Korean Peninsula which
seriously disturbs the peace,
security and stability in the region
and North Korea’s steps to arm
itself are only small steps to defend
itself.
Again, once the Summit was
over, the same people began
spreading stories like ‘the Summit
was possible because of strict
economic sanctions, tough
handling, threat of war by the US
and North Korea’s isolation in the
world.’ Stories of this kind, at best,
may please the imperialist bosses,
but will serve no other usef ul
purpose.
North Korea, doubtlessly, is a
small Country and is no match to
US in terms of economic and arms
strength. It kne w that the problems
North Korea faces are mostly a
creation imperialist intervention into
the affairs of Korean Peninsula.
The North Korean leadership
wanted the resolution of problems
between North and South Korea
and restoration of peace, security
and stability in the entire Korean
Peninsula. But, the North Korea’s
leadership was aware that this
objective can be achieved only by
ending the imperialist intervention
in the affairs of Korean Peninsula.
So, it adopted a two-pronged policy.
One: To prepare North Korea and
its people to defend themselves
suitably even in the event of war
that may be forced upon it by the
US and other imperialist powers.
The leadership off North Korea felt
that the preparedness can serve
as one of the best way to prevent
the War. Second: It used the peace
diplomacy to create conditions for
dialogue. Kim Jong-un had
combined these two methods to
realise the objective.
US – a leading imperialist
world power – is powerful enough
to unleash a disastrous war any
time of its choice. It used the
diplomacy, threat of war and
economic sanctions to realise its
aim. It knows that war will not
always yield the expected results.
W hat method it must use at a
particular time to bring the North
Korean leadership to its knees will
be decided, not by its subjective
wishes, but basing on the objective
assessment of its own situation as
well as that of the enemy. US found
North Korean leadership a hard nut
to creak. The state of North Korea
had compelled the US leadership
to think twice about the option of
war. It knew that the South Korean
people were strongly opposed to
war in general and war with North
Korea in particular. The overflowing
welcome response shown by them
to North Korea’s peace gesture in
the context of Olympic games in
South
Korea has
clearly
demonstrated it. Russia and China
had expressed their opposition to
any misadventure by the US.
Serious crisis rocking the US
economy; no happy experiences of
wars of invasion in Afghanistan,
Iraq and other place and the
general anti-war atmosphere in US
as well as the world had compelled
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