China protests over South Korea's plan for US missile defences

[Aepsilons]

@Nihonjin1051 , aside from the one you yourself caused, let's hope the Japanese nation will surprise our questioning friends by abruptly joining the AIIB. LOL.

I am not sure they would be able to take it.

My friend, Japan needs to do three things in The next 3 years:

• Conclude that CSKJ FTA
• Join the AIIB
• Conclude an official peace treaty with Russia

But with Japan's position with Iran and Russia, the United States is beginning to understand the paradigm shift in geopolitic. What begin with constitutional amendment (s) , had resulted in a nation wide revivalism of Japanese Nationalism.

New developments are on the horizon.

 

[gambit]

Japan's actions in the Asian Theater was a foregone conclusion, as I have said in my prior post, and in many posts here in PDF.

It was 'foregone' only in the context of what Imperial JPN chose to have for choices. I showed you -- beyond ALL reasonable doubts -- that the US was reluctant to war and was willing to work with JPN. The option that JPN rejected was to work with the US. The first offer from the US was far less severe than sanctions. JPN would have lost no physical possessions on mainland China, trades and associated routes would have been preserved, and that JPN would not lose any international standing.

JPN chose war.

There is no excuse for that, nor am i trying to excuse the sins of my ancestors.

Yes, you are. Your arguments consists of how noble was JPN's intention on removing Western imperialism, but conveniently said nothing about having JPN as replacement. In many ways, what JPN did to the 'inferior' Asians were actually more atrocious than what the Europeans did.

HOWEVER, I find it personally insulting how you are placating blame only on my people for the experiences of your mother without taking into consideration how French colonial laws in Viet Nam practically robbed Vietnamese of their wealth, forcing people to pay taxation to maintain the French colonial system, and at the same time divert much of Viet Nam's resources to appease Paris.

When Imperial JPN made a deal with Nazi Germany and Vichy France to take over Indochina, EVERYTHING that happened during those yrs are solely JPN's responsibilities and blame. Your feeble attempt at deflection from what JPN did is the real insult.

If you actually studied Japan's interentionism in Viet Nam you will see that Japan had helped train the Viet Minh and even after the end of the 2nd world war and after Tokyo's surrender, thousands of Imperial soldiers decided to stay in Viet Nam to help train Viet Minh against the looming struggle against the returning French (who had so quickly surrendered to Japan in 3 days after we invaded Hanoi....).

Here is something that I doubt that you -- and new masters the Chinese members here -- did not know...

General Order No. 1

The Japanese Imperial General Headquarters further orders its commanders in Japan and abroad to disarm completely all forces of Japan or under Japanese control, wherever they may be situated and to deliver intact and in safe and good condition all weapons and equipment at such time and at such places as may be prescribed by the Allied Commanders indicated above. (Pending further instructions, the Japanese police force in the main islands of Japan will be exempt from this disarmament provision. The police force will remain at their posts and shall be held responsible for the preservation of law and order. The strength and arms of such a police force will be prescribed.)

At the end of any armed conflict, whether it is a civil war or a war between states, the first and most important item is security. Not law, but security.

When WW II ended, all JPNese garrisons were ordered by the Allies to maintain order and were allowed to keep their arms. They were ordered to either have their police force keep arms and maintain order, or to create a police force to keep arms and maintain order. They were supposed to do so until an Allied representative arrive to relieve the JPNese garrison and take official control. General Order No. 1 was applicable from the JPNese home islands to any territory under JPNese control.

If any JPNese troops chose to stay in Viet Nam, it was because of no measure of nobility of the JPNese troops that you lamely tried to present here. If they assisted the Viet Minh, it was because what else can they do ?

Ultimately, the Vietnamese victory over the French in Dien Bien Phu brought immense gladness to many Japanese. As did the ultimate surrender of the Dutch in Java, and the eventual birth of 'Indonesia' a slogan that was cultivated by Japanese operating with Sukarno during the great conflict.

India's independence in 1947, too, was joyous jubilation for many Japanese. As the British Empire collapsed into nothingness...........

Neither you nor I know what really happened in JPN those days. You may believe this fiction but I doubt even your Chinese friends would swallow it.

The Goal was to Unite Asia under the Great East Asian Co Prosperity Sphere. And the eventual mobilization of Asia as the center of the global order. With Western Imperialists under foot.

Tho it did not materialize 70 years ago through war, I am glad to see that it is slowly being realized through peaceful means and through more comprehensive sectors through the cooperation of China, Japan, Korea, ASEAN, and the rest of Asia.

So to sum it up: The End Justifies The Means.

Good to know you are now an admitted Marxist.

For a claimed Ph.D, your naivete is child like.

I am going to tell you, Mr. Ph.D and your Chinese friends, something that is going to shock you guys to the core...

The US is not and never have been a 'hegemon'.

People, from ordinary folks to TV talking heads, toss the word 'hegemon' around too casually, especially when it comes to criticizing US. It make them look 'sophisticated' when convenient.

So in this lifetime, has there been a true hegemon ? Yes: The Soviet Union. And never was the US.

What is a 'great power' ? A great power is a country whose economic and military might cannot be challenged. Not un-challenged because it implies there is a potential challenger waiting for the right time and circumstances. But cannot be challenged no matter how much some other country may wish to do so. Last is the political influence, aka 'soft power', factor. A great power is a country whose political influence is dominant over others.

A true hegemon is always a great power, but a great power is not always a hegemon. A great power may appear and even act, under specific situations, like a hegemon, but still is NOT a true hegemon.

Who is the hegemon in the family ? The parents, of course. Not only is the father the executor of physical repercussions of any violation of family rules, the idea of the father is enough to deter the children from making many violations of the family rules. In this case, the family is a closed political system.

The international order is anarchic in scope, meaning there is no overriding authority, like a father in a family, to keep members of the system in line. The Warsaw Pact is a closed and ORDERED system. Inside this system, it is not enough that the Kremlin can issue the violent removal of a member in the system's leaderships, and every member knew it could be done, but that the idea alone was enough to keep members in obedience.

The US as a great power in the Western alliance never managed to instilled that level of fear among the members it led. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was an excellent example of why the US was not a hegemon -- because it happened in the Western Hemisphere, supposedly an area that the US 'controls'. Cuba never cared for what the US might think of having nuclear missiles less than 100 miles of CONUS. The Cuban military could never challenge the US military, but that was not enough of an intellectual deterrence to Fidel Castro when he allowed Nikita Khrushchev to ship nuclear missiles to Cuba.

Throughout the entire Cold War, the US was mostly REACTIVE to Soviet clandestine incursions into the Americas. Yes, sometimes the US supported odious Central and South American dictators, but that support always included personal bribes, economic enticements for the country, and so on. Any of these dictators usually hold the threat of an invitation to the Soviets over the American Presidents' heads.

Another example is the Argentine-UK war over the Falkland Islands. If the US is such a hegemon in the Western Hemisphere, there would have been no war between the two countries. A word from the US and Argentine would have acquiesced to Great Britain.

So under the true context of what is a hegemon, the US never was and is not, especially in Asia since the region is under this discussion. If the US is such a hegemon in Asia, the JPNese era of the 1980s, as in the book 'The Japan That Can Say No', would have never happened.

You want to see a true hegemon wannabe and is willing to act like the Soviet Union to achieve that status ? Look westward across the Sea of Japan and over the Korean peninsula.

 

[TaiShang]

Conclude that CSKJ FTA

I just checked the official website of the Foreign Ministry. There seems to be a trilateral meeting as recently as December 11th of last year on the progress and other details of the proposed FTA. At least within 2016, the framework should be more or less finalized and 2017 should start with a grand launching of the CJK FTA.

The countries should pick a date close to Spring Festival as the governments' new year present to their respective nations.

Join the AIIB

I am happy that AIIB is an inclusive organization, so, the door is open for Japan. And to the proportion of its economy, it would have a great weight, in fact, the second largest in terms of percentage.

Conclude an official peace treaty with Russia

Geopolitical conditions are very ripe for this. It is often in times of crises that diplomatic opportunities come up. From the links you shared, I can see a clear direction toward that end. But I am not sure of the speed and expanse of it.

But with Japan's position with Iran and Russia, the United States is beginning to understand the paradigm shift in geopolitic. What begin with constitutional amendment (s) , had resulted in a nation wide revivalism of Japanese Nationalism.

Japan should also utilize this one year lame duck US presidency before the new one takes the helm at the White House. Also with all the distraction Syria creates now (as well as the new US past time in SCS), Japan has a unique window of opportunity.

 

[Aepsilons]

It was 'foregone' only in the context of what Imperial JPN chose to have for choices. I showed you -- beyond ALL reasonable doubts -- that the US was reluctant to war and was willing to work with JPN. The option that JPN rejected was to work with the US. The first offer from the US was far less severe than sanctions. JPN would have lost no physical possessions on mainland China, trades and associated routes would have been preserved, and that JPN would not lose any international standing.

JPN chose war.


Yes, you are. Your arguments consists of how noble was JPN's intention on removing Western imperialism, but conveniently said nothing about having JPN as replacement. In many ways, what JPN did to the 'inferior' Asians were actually more atrocious than what the Europeans did.


When Imperial JPN made a deal with Nazi Germany and Vichy France to take over Indochina, EVERYTHING that happened during those yrs are solely JPN's responsibilities and blame. Your feeble attempt at deflection from what JPN did is the real insult.


Here is something that I doubt that you -- and new masters the Chinese members here -- did not know...

General Order No. 1

At the end of any armed conflict, whether it is a civil war or a war between states, the first and most important item is security. Not law, but security.

When WW II ended, all JPNese garrisons were ordered by the Allies to maintain order and were allowed to keep their arms. They were ordered to either have their police force keep arms and maintain order, or to create a police force to keep arms and maintain order. They were supposed to do so until an Allied representative arrive to relieve the JPNese garrison and take official control. General Order No. 1 was applicable from the JPNese home islands to any territory under JPNese control.

If any JPNese troops chose to stay in Viet Nam, it was because of no measure of nobility of the JPNese troops that you lamely tried to present here. If they assisted the Viet Minh, it was because what else can they do ?


Neither you nor I know what really happened in JPN those days. You may believe this fiction but I doubt even your Chinese friends would swallow it.


So to sum it up: The End Justifies The Means.

Good to know you are now an admitted Marxist.

For a claimed Ph.D, your naivete is child like.

I am going to tell you, Mr. Ph.D and your Chinese friends, something that is going to shock you guys to the core...

The US is not and never have been a 'hegemon'.

People, from ordinary folks to TV talking heads, toss the word 'hegemon' around too casually, especially when it comes to criticizing US. It make them look 'sophisticated' when convenient.

So in this lifetime, has there been a true hegemon ? Yes: The Soviet Union. And never was the US.

What is a 'great power' ? A great power is a country whose economic and military might cannot be challenged. Not un-challenged because it implies there is a potential challenger waiting for the right time and circumstances. But cannot be challenged no matter how much some other country may wish to do so. Last is the political influence, aka 'soft power', factor. A great power is a country whose political influence is dominant over others.

A true hegemon is always a great power, but a great power is not always a hegemon. A great power may appear and even act, under specific situations, like a hegemon, but still is NOT a true hegemon.

Who is the hegemon in the family ? The parents, of course. Not only is the father the executor of physical repercussions of any violation of family rules, the idea of the father is enough to deter the children from making many violations of the family rules. In this case, the family is a closed political system.

The international order is anarchic in scope, meaning there is no overriding authority, like a father in a family, to keep members of the system in line. The Warsaw Pact is a closed and ORDERED system. Inside this system, it is not enough that the Kremlin can issue the violent removal of a member in the system's leaderships, and every member knew it could be done, but that the idea alone was enough to keep members in obedience.

The US as a great power in the Western alliance never managed to instilled that level of fear among the members it led. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was an excellent example of why the US was not a hegemon -- because it happened in the Western Hemisphere, supposedly an area that the US 'controls'. Cuba never cared for what the US might think of having nuclear missiles less than 100 miles of CONUS. The Cuban military could never challenge the US military, but that was not enough of an intellectual deterrence to Fidel Castro when he allowed Nikita Khrushchev to ship nuclear missiles to Cuba.

Throughout the entire Cold War, the US was mostly REACTIVE to Soviet clandestine incursions into the Americas. Yes, sometimes the US supported odious Central and South American dictators, but that support always included personal bribes, economic enticements for the country, and so on. Any of these dictators usually hold the threat of an invitation to the Soviets over the American Presidents' heads.

Another example is the Argentine-UK war over the Falkland Islands. If the US is such a hegemon in the Western Hemisphere, there would have been no war between the two countries. A word from the US and Argentine would have acquiesced to Great Britain.

So under the true context of what is a hegemon, the US never was and is not, especially in Asia since the region is under this discussion. If the US is such a hegemon in Asia, the JPNese era of the 1980s, as in the book 'The Japan That Can Say No', would have never happened.

You want to see a true hegemon wannabe and is willing to act like the Soviet Union to achieve that status ? Look westward across the Sea of Japan and over the Korean peninsula.

Sir,

From reading your post it seems that you're coming across rather aggressive. Perhaps we take some time to discern and reflect. I suppose I believe that it would be to our best interest to refrain from addressing each other until calm and serenity of mind is restored.

Respectfully,
Kenji

 

[gambit]

Sir,

From reading your post it seems that you're coming across rather aggressive. Perhaps we take some time to discern and reflect. I suppose I believe that it would be to our best interest to refrain from addressing each other until calm and serenity of mind is restored.

Respectfully,
Kenji

I am always calm and reflective. There is nothing in this forum that gets on my nerves. But if you find my arguments, not what you perceive of me, as aggressive, then perhaps you should examine yourself.

 

[SirHatesALot]

Whats the update on these plans?

 

[XiaoYaoZi]

Maybe you will get two alerts about this post, that just is because the member with used plaster flag disliked my post and coped it slinkingly. I have preserve the post to avoid deleting again.

Are you really Nihonjin san?

Not surprisingly. Self-contradiction can always be seen in the posts of the guy with used plaster flag.

Just find it weird that its all the fault of 'evil/imperialist' west oppressing holy East asian countries, with Japan as the holiest obviously. JAPAN ONLY FOUGHT FOR THE LIBERATION AND FREEDOM OF ASIANS. LMAO.
Awwwwwwww........How sweet of Japan.

That is the trash and cheeky propaganda of Japanese that just foolish themselves. In WWII Japanese have killed countless innocent Chinese people lives which is larger than the half of Japanese population that time and far larger than the total the western colonists has done. Using this theory, we should directly nuke all main cities of Japan to eliminate the garrisons of US in Japan to liberate the people of the little island country from the control of US.Using this logic, US has nuked Japan to drag the little island country out of the war mire and liberate all its islanders.We should call the atom bombs that US has thrown the love of daddy.

Its no wonder the vast majority of Chinese and koreans hate Japan more than any other country. Now I understand why. . Its because Japan liberated them from western imperialism.

Japan don't think it has been defeated by Chinese people, it think that was the current daddy country of itself.
Its also no wonder the majority of the islanders "love" US more than their own country. I also know why.
Its because US has liberated Japanese people by sinking all the IJN and nuking the islands in WWII to take them to the hi-tech "free world" and helped them by signing the Plaza accord in 1970s to take Japanese economy to the "paradise".

 

[mike2000 is back]

The concept of absolute poverty is relative, in the end. For people in Japan , South Korea and other advanced nations ie, Germany, Singapore, United States, UK et al --- the lifestyles in North Korea may be considered 'poor' because it is not at par to the consumption level and lifestyles in our respective countries. However for North Koreans were this is all they have known since the formation of a Democratic People's Republic of Korea after the collapse of Japanese Empire's Chosen Colony in 1945. You have to understand that to the North Koreans -- they still hold true to the notion of National Pride ; in fact if you actually read into North Korean publications (a la Chongryon publications) they always lambast Japan's current position by saying how Japan has betrayed her Imperial ancestors and the Imperial System by catering to Americans; they say the same about South Korea and tout how South Korea has betrayed the notion of Korean Independence to host US forces in their sacred Korean soil.

To an extent -- they do have a point. North Korea , in my opinion, is one of the few countries in East Asia that truly has an independent foreign policy and one that doesn't care about American interest groups or special agencies. I suppose aside from China, North Korea is the only truly independent power in East Asia that has the ability to negate US admonishment.



No, i think he is referring to the British Army's retreat from Kabul in 1842, and the subsequent annihilation of the entire Army. In fact only 1 managed to escape alive back to British India.....

1842 retreat from Kabul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

LOL You are right N.Koreans are living a good life in their country. Everything the Western andand even Chinese media says about the hard living conditions in N.Korea is just propaganda/lies. lol Good one.

You are lucky you are from a ewealthy country like Japan. You know it's always easier to see greener pastures when you are standing the other side of the fence. If you were N.Korean I dont think you will be saying the same thing.

As for your other point about S.Koreans taking pride in Crazy kim nuclear weapons/tests hthreatening to turn Seoul into a mountain of fire.
.
I must say I cant believe you even think S.Koreans are happy seeing het North acwuire nuclear eweapons that threatens them. Really?? Its Baffling coming from someone like you.

Maybe you will get two alerts about this post, that just is because the member with used plaster flag disliked my post and coped it slinkingly. I have preserve the post to avoid deleting again.

Not surprisingly. Self-contradiction can always be seen in the posts of the guy with used plaster flag.

That is the trash and cheeky propaganda of Japanese. In WWII Japanese have killed countless innocent Chinese people lives which is larger than the half of Japanese population that time and far larger than the total the western colonists has done. Using this theory, we should directly nuke all main cities of Japan to eliminate the garrisons of US in Japan to liberate the people of little island country from the control of US.Using this logic, US has nuked Japan to drag the little island country out of the war mire and liberate all its islanders.

Japan don't think it has been defeated by Chinese people, it think that was the current daddy country of itself.
Its also no wonder the majority of the islanders love US more than their own country. I also know why.
Its because US has liberated Japanese people by sinking all the IJN and nuking the islands in WWII to take them to the hi-tech "free world" and helped them by signing the Plaza accord in 1970s to take Japanese economy to the "paradise".

LOL TRUE.
Well , maybe his account was hacked or something, since some of the things he says are just unbelievable. Lol

The part I find hilarious is the one he tries to portray Japan as a saviour of Asia. The country that fought to liberate China,Korea/Asians from evil western imperialism. Its no wonder Japan will NEVER apologise to China and Korea. since every Japanese knows they simply fought to liberate the Chinese and koreans fron the evil U.S,U.K,France etc.

 

[Aepsilons]

As for your other point about S.Koreans taking pride in Crazy kim nuclear weapons/tests hthreatening to turn Seoul into a mountain of fire.

My dear sweet Michael,

How long has the Korean standoff taken place? Since the 1950s, chum. So for the past 60 some odd years the North Koreans with their massive artillery have failed to strike Seoul was for naught? Can you not see through the veil , good man? Or perhaps it is your Western thinking that fails and clouds your judgment and appraisal of East Asia. Perhaps the latter.

Let me be frank with you here, Michael. The North Koreans will not strike Seoul because ultimately North Koreans and South Koreans are THE SAME people, they are the same Han people (as what they refer to themselves). They both share the same history with Koryo, Shilla, Pekjae, Kogoryu, Jeoson. They both revere the Mount Paektu (the Chinese brothers refer to this as Changbai). The story of Korea does not end at the 38th parallel, my little English friend. Korea , Great Korea is a nation entity that has existed even far older than Japan, she is over 4,000 years old and has been at the heart of the Trinity of East Asia (China, Korea, Japan). Just as Korea had endured national calamities and internal events throughout her 4 millennial history, so , too , shall she rise over this current standoff in the 38th parallel.

Ultimately the North has retained the martial spirit of Jeoson and to a degree the same partial spirit that was alive deeply in Imperial Japan, Imperial China. South Korea represents economic success and the potential of hard owrk, that a nation of some 50 million can reach such a zenith ! Both Koreas (North and South) complement each other and that is the reason why both Seoul and Pyongyang have refrained from clashes and war, and have even concluded in 2000 on the declaration of National Unification.

When North Korea unifies with South Korea (and this will happen, it is not a matter of 'if' , but 'when') the martial spirit and military advances of North Korean nuclear armament will merely fuse with that of South Korea. South Korea's economic finness will merely trickle down to the rest of North Korea.

There will be no war in Korea. Korean people are able to see through and see past the American agenda and rhetoric.

Of course.

I must say I cant believe you even think S.Koreans are happy seeing het North acwuire nuclear eweapons that threatens them. Really?? Its Baffling coming from someone like you.

I don't think you ever talked to genuine South Koreans. South Koreans that i know want their Unified Korea.

Only the myopic , closed minded Western eye fail to see the longing of the proud, resilient and ancient...Korean People!

 

[XiaoYaoZi]

LOL TRUE.
Well , maybe his account was hacked or something, since some of the things he says are just unbelievable. Lol

The part I find hilarious is the one he tries to portray Japan as a saviour of Asia. The country that fought to liberate China,Korea/Asians from evil western imperialism. Its no wonder Japan will NEVER apologise to China and Korea. since every Japanese knows they simply fought to liberate the Chinese and koreans fron the evil U.S,U.K,France etc.

How much an apology can be sold or worthy, especially the apology from Japanese. Asking Japanese apologize is just a needed diplomatic gesture, no politicians really care about it. What is funny and idiot is that Japanese government can't use it to maximize its benefits, that is rather paranoid.

 

[TaiShang]

There will be no war in Korea. Korean people are able to see through and see past the American agenda and rhetoric.

That's my argument, as well. I also agued that, at the heat of the SCS dispute with China and Vietnam involved, there would not be a war. The problem with the Western thinking is that they think, in modern times, they could macro-manage East Asia as they have been doing in the Greater Middle East.

One can enumerate a number of reasons for East Asian socio-historical exceptionalism, but I will only bring up the innate secularism. The West can in no way play the sectarian card to pit one against the other in our region. Then, what they end up with are issues related to hard security, such as, nuclear proliferation.

But, being mundane, they are easier (relatively speaking) to handle than more abstract disagreements. All we need is social interaction at the peoples' level and pragmatic governments. In (North) East Asia, we have plenty of them, luckily.

Hopefully it will be too late before the West understands they have, in the post war, only momentarily manhandled East Asia. Now it is our turn.

 

[hirobo2]

LOL TRUE.
Well , maybe his account was hacked or something, since some of the things he says are just unbelievable. Lol

The part I find hilarious is the one he tries to portray Japan as a saviour of Asia. The country that fought to liberate China,Korea/Asians from evil western imperialism. Its no wonder Japan will NEVER apologise to China and Korea. since every Japanese knows they simply fought to liberate the Chinese and koreans fron the evil U.S,U.K,France etc.

It can't be helped. On every East Asian board, there's always a Japanese guy there who turns out to be the most narcissistic poster on the board. The reason they're even on it is to spread the Japanese glory. But it can't be helped. Denial of actual historic facts is an immature psychological defense mechanism. And the narcissism I'm talking about is as much part of their genetic makeup as their innate thirst for blood (ie. what happened when they invaded Asia)...

 

[jhungary]

LOL You are right N.Koreans are living a good life in their country. Everything the Western andand even Chinese media says about the hard living conditions in N.Korea is just propaganda/lies. lol Good one.

You are lucky you are from a ewealthy country like Japan. You know it's always easier to see greener pastures when you are standing the other side of the fence. If you were N.Korean I dont think you will be saying the same thing.

As for your other point about S.Koreans taking pride in Crazy kim nuclear weapons/tests hthreatening to turn Seoul into a mountain of fire.
.
I must say I cant believe you even think S.Koreans are happy seeing het North acwuire nuclear eweapons that threatens them. Really?? Its Baffling coming from someone like you.


LOL TRUE.
Well , maybe his account was hacked or something, since some of the things he says are just unbelievable. Lol

The part I find hilarious is the one he tries to portray Japan as a saviour of Asia. The country that fought to liberate China,Korea/Asians from evil western imperialism. Its no wonder Japan will NEVER apologise to China and Korea. since every Japanese knows they simply fought to liberate the Chinese and koreans fron the evil U.S,U.K,France etc.

Let me just summarize what @Nihonjin1051 said to you in a few words.

In his word, this is the true Korean Leader the Korean People should embrace

Because he have guts to stand up to the Western Imperialist over all these year and do not bow down to the US like the Southern Counterpart.

And this is the true Korean should be because they embrace the spirit of Joseon (by the way, I think he spelled Joseon wrong, maybe that's how it spell in Japanese? I don't know)

and people that live like this is not a true Korean,

because they were all bowed down and clouded to the western imperialist.

Can I get anymore clearer?

 

[TaiShang]

There will be no war in Korea. Korean people are able to see through and see past the American agenda and rhetoric.

Exactly.

What is significant is to stress such a discourse instead of being reactive to the Western discourse.

Being reactive to Western discourse not only helps that discourse solidify, but also keeps us from promoting our own.

 

[Aepsilons]

Korean Unification Possible by 2050: Report



North and South Korea could be unified by 2040~2050, according to a new report. Released on the 16th by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Korea National Diplomatic Academy, the report is the first to look at a possible “blueprint for unification” since President Park Geun Hye made her “unification as jackpot” comment at the beginning of this year.

According to “2040 Korea Unification Vision Report,” if South and North are able to establish a joint economic system and raise the national income of North Koreans to $10,000 per person by implementing President Park’s “trust process” and facilitating greater inter-Korean exchanges and cooperation, it would then be possible to achieve peaceful unification.

The report states that by around 2040~50, if North Korea’s national income were to rise to 70% of South Korea’s, political unification would be achievable.

It notes also that unification would make Korea the 7th largest economy in the world, with a population of 80 million, and would create synergies by facilitating economies of scale. A unified Korea would also see many fewer troops on the Korean Peninsula, from the current total of 1,800,000 down to approximately 350,000.

However, the report has been met with skepticism by experts.

The head of the Sejong Institute, Song Dae Sung told Daily NK, “There is some meaning in the fact that a blueprint for unification has been issued, and that it prioritizes economic integration over political and ideological unification, which could incite social unrest.”


Korean Unification Possible by 2050: Report- Daily NK



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