Posted on 05/15/2018 7:25:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Seoul [South Korea], May 15 : North Korea has agreed to send two of its diplomats to an international forum hosted by South Korea's unification ministry in Kazakhstan this week.
This comes after the two Koreas held a historic summit at the Panmunjom border village in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) on April 27, leading to a further thaw in inter-Korean relations.
According to the South Korean unification ministry official, two councilor-level North Korean diplomats stationed in Russia will attend the forum scheduled to be held on April 18 in Almaty, Yonhap news agency reported.
This would be the first time that diplomats from North Korea will participate in an event sponsored by the South Korean unification ministry.
The forum will be held under the theme of - "The peace and future for the Korean Peninsula."
In a reconciliatory move, North Korea has invited eight South Korean journalists to cover an event showcasing the dismantling of the Punggye-ri site scheduled, according to the South Korean unification ministry.
A ceremony for the dismantling of the site reportedly has been scheduled between May 23-25.
Pyongyang also confirmed that international journalists, including the ones from the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK), would be invited to carry out "on-the-spot coverage in order to show in a transparent manner" how the use of the nuclear site is being discontinued.
On April 20, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that his nation already had "completed its mission" to test its weapons capability and added that it had no further need for the site.
Trump should go to S Korea and tell them to “tear down this wall” (figuratively) for the border between N and S.
When the people are able to travel from the north and see what the south has, they will do the rest for us.
Hopefully it would be as peaceful as when East and West Berlin travel was allowed, where (as Brokaw said) “They Came, They Saw, They did a little shopping”
New “Silk Railroad” connection might just be what this is about.
Trouble is that could turn into a flood of North Koreans who come and then don’t want to go back. I’m all for better relations between the two countries but at some point the North Koreans will see with their own eyes how they have been lied to and then the trouble could really start.
I wonder how and if that would work? Is Kim willing to give up power? Is he willing to let some of his citizens travel south?
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