N. Korea has requested that S. Korea push the summit date to October. The reason given was the recent floods that have hit North Korea.
No date has been set, and North Korea has stated that South Korea may set the date at its pleasure. The South Korean government is pushing for a Oct. 2nd ~ 4th schedule.
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This change was pretty obvious though, right?
Actually, I thought that this will go through since the S. Korean gov.t is giving N. Korea a 7 billion Won package sometime next week.
I guess N. Korea wasn’t happy with the figure. Or maybe they weren’t happy with the ramen being included in the package.
S.Korea gives N.Korea a 7 billion won package so Noh can head to Pyongyang to receive KJI’s package. Poetic.
Quite simple, if he went so soon after they got the 7 billion won, giving more money would have raised eyebrows. In October, few people will remember.
I thought the 7 billion package was for flood relief, and wasn’t connected to the summit. Someguy is right, though — by waiting a little while, they can ask for more incentives to come to the table again.
I bet Roh is pretty pissed that they want to move it to October, which will probably be too late for him to get much political leverage out of it.
Damn, some of the 600 academics gathering for the World Congress for Korean Studies in Busan Aug 23~25 (soon!) had been invited on a free one-day tour (RT by bus from Seoul) to Gaeseong on the 28th — I was looking forward to that, being an invitee — but it was *canceled* just 3 days ago because of the Summit beginning on the same day! I wonder if they’ll now be able to reinstate it … probably not
What a waste…
SO NOW THE MILITARY TRAINING is definitely not gonna happen
hahahaha if the korean gov’t and military doesnt give a fuck why should the US
So does this mean ULF can proceed as originally scheduled?
….oh
I don’t imagine General Bell would say anything publicly about this, but I wonder what he’s thinking about all this…
I wonder if U.S. military stores in Korea sell those ship-in-a-bottle kits.
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