.@TimothyS provides important context to understanding South Korea politics, US relations, meaning of Moon election
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-united-states-should-listen-to-south-korea-or-it-will-reap-the-whirlwind/ …
.@TheJihyeLee: "South and North Korea are discussing plans to announce an official end to the military conflict between the two countries that are still technically at war ... the US and North Korea have been at loggerheads since formal hostilities ended"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-17/two-koreas-discuss-announcing-end-to-military-conflict-munhwa-jg35w9vf …
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Very important interview with
@christineahn in order to understand the social mobilization behind the Korean peace movement -- a part of the story that is generally omitted or downplayed in most "western" coverage#KoreaSummithttps://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-35-the-total-blackout-of-the-korean-left …Show this thread -
Much needed context to the
#KoreaSummit provided in this article by@TimothyS: "a historic summit that many Koreans believe could end the war and state of belligerence that has plagued both sides of the Korean Peninsula since the late 1940s."https://www.thenation.com/article/south-and-north-korea-prepare-to-discuss-an-end-to-the-korean-war/ …Show this thread -
A must-read for background on the historical
#interkoreansummithttps://twitter.com/TimothyS/status/989868265961910272 …Show this thread -
“the S&P Aerospace and Defense Select Industry Index fell roughly 1.3%. ... The losses comes after North and South Korean leaders met Friday, agreeing to ... negotiate with the U.S. to officially declare peace and put an official end to the Korean War.”http://fortune.com/2018/04/27/north-south-korea-nuclear-friendly-handshake-defense-stocks-boeing/ …
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@christineahn: “the the real force behind Moon Jae-in is the democratic people's movements that basically aborted his predecessor, Park Geun-hye, who's sitting now in prison, who maintained a hard line against North Korea”http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=21672 …Show this thread -
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@TimothyS on@democracynow : “The US cannot control Korea anymore. The US has been in Korea militarily since 1945, and its time to end this colonial-like relationship with South Korea.”https://www.democracynow.org/2018/4/30/tim_shorrock_on_north_korea_nuclear …Show this thread -
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@TimothyS: "if peace does come about, it won’t be due ... to Trump’s hard-line policies ... . Instead, it will be because of Moon’s diplomacy, as well as support from the mass movement that swept him into power"https://www.thenation.com/article/historic-korean-summit-sets-the-table-for-peace-and-us-pundits-react-with-horror/ …Show this thread -
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@adamjohnsonNYC: “When 88 percent of the subject of a news story think something is good, and 95 percent of US media say that thing is bad, one should ask why that is. ”https://fair.org/home/what-do-us-pundits-know-about-north-korea-that-88-of-south-koreans-dont/ …Show this thread -
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@stephenWalt: "tendency to treat foes as inherently irrational has real costs" - preventive war becomes a more attractive option - it can blind us to the real reasons behind an adversary’s behavior - it makes normal diplomacy seem like a waste of timehttp://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/14/never-call-kim-jong-un-crazy-again/ …Show this thread -
Thorough, informative, balanced account by
@TimothyS of Trump and Kim Jong-un's "unprecedented meeting"after months of intensive negotiations that began when Kim unexpectedly invited Trump "to meet and settle their vast differences"https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-meets-kim-averting-threat-nuclear-war-us-pundits-furious/ …Show this thread -
“the way we treat South Korea is as almost a colony. ... it’s just incredible to read people like that saying, just assuming that South Korea does not have the sovereign right to try to unify and reconcile within its own country.”https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1034966728307032064?s=21 …
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"President Moon Jae-in became the first South Korean leader to give a speech to the North Korean public ... Mr Moon is on a three-day visit to Pyongyang where he signed a landmark agreement with Kim Jong-un."https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45578491 …
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President Moon Jae-in's speech in front of 150,000 North Korean citizens, at Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, was the first time a South Korean head of state ever addressed North Korean citizens directly [ENG subtitles]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmNQ89I5GIc …
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@TimothyS: "the leaders of North and South Korea [...] sent an unmistakable message that the two Koreas have moved into a new phase of reconciliation and are ready to overcome the barriers that have kept them divided since 1945."https://www.thenation.com/article/moon-and-kim-stage-an-exuberant-summit-in-pyongyang/ …Show this thread -
"The two Koreas will start clearing mines from the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on October 1 as a first step after they agreed to disarm the border area starting with land mines."http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2018/10/356_256216.html …
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