Two Koreas agree to push ahead with road, rail links despite sanctions

[Peter1469]

Two Koreas agree to push ahead with road, rail links despite sanctions

This is good news. It would be nice if the Koreas could solve their problems and move on.

North and South Korea agreed on Monday to press ahead with plans to establish road and rail links, pledging to hold a groundbreaking ceremony on the project in late November or early December.

The plan comes despite sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, and it is unclear how far or how fast the project can proceed without violating those sanctions, which Seoul has vowed to respect.


It also comes amid some concerns in Washington about the enthusiasm with which South Korean President Moon Jae-in has embraced North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, despite the fact that North Korea has so far taken no concrete steps to disarm.


Plans to establish road and rail links were a key part of the agreement reached between Moon and Kim when they first met at the border village of Panmunjom in April.


The commitment to move ahead on the transport links was announced after high-level talks Monday between the two sides, at which they also agreed to hold a series of discussions on other areas of cooperation in coming weeks.


Talks are planned this month and next about increasing military engagement to reduce the threat of conventional warfare, about a joint bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics and about stepping up contacts between families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War.

[Ethereal]

The North and South are sincere about wanting peace. Unfortunately, there are certain people in the west, mostly in government, who do not want peace on the Korean Peninsula. There is simply too much money at stake. The US government is spending billions and billions of dollars on maintaining a military presence there, which many powerful corporations profit off of. If peace comes about, then there will be no reason to keep shoveling billions of dollars at these political connected corporations. So they make their creatures in government ramp up the fear and sabotage the peace process. That's why Bolton, for example, talked about the "Libya model" during Trump's historic outreach to North Korea. He was intentionally trying to sabotage the peace process on behalf of the profiteers in the military-industrial complex.

[Peter1469]

The North and South are sincere about wanting peace. Unfortunately, there are certain people in the west, mostly in government, who do not want peace on the Korean Peninsula. There is simply too much money at stake. The US government is spending billions and billions of dollars on maintaining a military presence there, which many powerful corporations profit off of. If peace comes about, then there will be no reason to keep shoveling billions of dollars at these political connected corporations. So they make their creatures in government ramp up the fear and sabotage the peace process. That's why Bolton, for example, talked about the "Libya model" during Trump's historic outreach to North Korea. He was intentionally trying to sabotage the peace process on behalf of the profiteers in the military-industrial complex.

South Korea is also a good staging ground for any issues with China- another reason the US may not want peace between the N and S.

[Ethereal]

South Korea is also a good staging ground for any issues with China- another reason the US may not want peace between the N and S.

Any excuse to blow billions of dollars on the military-industrial complex.