Incredible is that the DPRK has taken its independent path never similar to the Libyan model
🌝 By Ja Unyong
1860's map of Korea
The DPRK has said that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the country's ultimate goal. This stand was reconfirmed in the Joint Press Release announced at the close of the latest inter-Korean ministerial talks that were held in Pyongyang from February 28 to March 2.
As for the denuclearization, the document says: "The north and the south agreed to make concerted efforts for the satisfactory implementation of all the agreements reached at the third session of the fifth round of the six-party talks to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and ensure peace there."
I'd like to begin with the point that many observers and media have spread a story remote from the truth. They say north Korea is making a pledge of denuclearization in order to attract more economic aid from somewhere. This kind of story is wrong.
When north Korea says of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, it would mean the denuclearization of all parties related to the Korean Peninsula. To disregard this aspect is to miss the truth encircling the six-party talks.
Why does the Joint Agreement of February 13 exclude the issue of the nuclear weapon or HEU of north Korea from the first steps?
Why does the US show a subtle gesture as if it retreats from "HEU" offensive against the DPRK?
The reason lies in the multilateral judgement on situation. Condition and environment to jump into the subject are not ripe.
Six-party talks have been nothing but a tool to denuclearize only north Korea. There is no dream for the denuclearization of all parties in the American side.
However, the six-party talks will transform itself into the six-party denuclearization talks directly after somebody utters the imaginative issue of the north Korean HEU or the publicized issue of the north Korean nukes. This turn of event would be a sudden coup de grâce to the pretending face of the six-party talks so far.
Among the nuclear weapons states, it is north Korea that wants to see the Korean Peninsula truly denuclearized to the interest of whole Korean.
The US, Russia and China have said nothing about the denuclearization of themselves in and around the Korean Peninsula yet. From here anybody can smell a combination of paradox and hypocrisy.
If the six-party talks take harder agenda, continue hotter argument, and reach higher agreement, all parties will become "non-nuclear weapon states" at least in the region sometime in the future.
That would be what north Korea ardently wants and really welcomes. That would be what north Korea has called the ultimate goal. The DPRK is very simple, clear and straightforward in its stand and objective.
If all parties are to take real actions to denuclearize themselves in parallel, the DPRK will denuclearize itself happily.
A problematic question is: Who will follow the DPRK's objective?
Will the US denuclearize itself in and around the Korean Peninsula?
And how about Russia, China, Japan and South Korea?
Whether these countries or parties want or not, the DPRK will do its best to denuclearize them all at any resort.
Let's not laugh.
The term "ultimate goal" gives out a feeling of difficulty. The hill to the heights of denuclearization must be paved with thorny bush. It explains why the phrase like "concerted efforts" must be included in the Joint Press Release mentioned above.
The north Korean pledge of denuclearization should be interpreted as a national call of compatriots to accomplish a national goal together. It should not be mistaken as a mere gesture for more economic aid from nowhere.
By the way, are you still a lover of Libyan model? If then, I recommend you to find the story "Qaddafi [Who] Blasts West Failure to Reward Non-Nuclear Libya" in the Al Jazeera Magazine of March 2, 2007.
Is it already hard to find the link to the story thanks to my typo?
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