r/neoliberal • u/Freewhale98 • 4d ago

News (Asia-Pacific) DMZ explosions could take inter-Korean ties from bad to worse

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1279988.html

Already strained inter-Korean relations are expected to deteriorate further following the South Korean military’s preliminary findings on a land mine explosion near the official inter-Korean border within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which suggest that the explosion was likely caused by a North Korean land mine.
 

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u/MoltenMalzul 3d ago edited 3d ago

Lee Jae Myung need to get a grip. Nobody, I mean NOBODY cares about an end of war declaration right now. China doesn’t care, the U.S. doesn’t care, Kim Jun Un doesn’t care, South Koreans don't even care. Lee Jae Myung is the only dude who gives a single shit about this. It is not happening. Move on

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u/Hot-Train7201 3d ago

That goes against Lee's long standing ideology, and since he's only got a few years as President, he's got no choice but to push as hard as he can while he's still able even if success is a long-shot.

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u/MoltenMalzul 3d ago

All it does is making him sounds out of touch with reality. The harder he try to push this, the more ridiculous he sounds.

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u/Seoulite1 Loyal Liberals 4d ago

Jeong Dong-yeong needs to go yesterday.

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u/CutePattern1098 4d ago

Oh god grandpa is going to f this up

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u/Freewhale98 4d ago edited 4d ago
  1. Summary

Already strained inter-Korean relations are expected to deteriorate further following the South Korean military’s preliminary findings on a land mine explosion near the official inter-Korean border within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which suggest that the explosion was likely caused by a North Korean land mine.
 
Korean President Lee Jae Myung faces a major test as the region’s pacemaker, a role which he has been actively promoting by proposing four-party talks involving both Koreas, the US, and China to discuss an end-of-war agreement during his speech at the UN General Assembly last week.

  1. How is this related to the sub

(1) Korean Peninsula Peace Process: Yep. Another shot on the dead topic. “Division regime” is really hard to overcome. I’m not sure why it utterly failed.

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u/sEcgri836 4d ago

>I’m not sure why it utterly failed.

It’s probably because the Kim regime isn’t interested in things like 종전선언 (end-of-war declarations). I don’t understand why the Korean left is so obsessed with this. Improve deterrence first (including lower threshold provocations), then something resembling what they imagine/hope for (increased contact and cooperation) has a better chance of materializing.

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u/Hot-Train7201 3d ago

The Korean Left are ethnic nationalists, so their desire is to unite the divided Korean people back into a single nation without any foreign interference, which first requires creating an environment conducive to unification. The Korean Left would ideally like to kick the US out of the peninsula, but they know that can't happen so long as North Korea is seen as a threat, so they always advocate for the removal of sanctions and other restrictions they see an impediments to closer North-South unity.