2nd economic zone… yeah right
another railroad… yeah right
NLL… yeah right

On a brighter note, more joint sports related activities… that’s something.

Regardless, this is probably better use of Roh’s time than whatever else he would be doing had he not gone to DPRK.

I see zero effect this has for LMB. Only by LMB doing or saying something incredibly stupefyingly dumb from now till electioin time will he lose. like something on the level of him paying respects at Yasukuni.

Yes, the US is being suckered yet again and Bush is buying it. Pathetic.

I’m feeling all snuggly and safe now, aren’t you?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....02255.html

. . . The National Security Law was an issue during the first inter-Korean summit in 2000. At the time, then-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung said, “the abolition of the National Security Law cannot be done just by South Korea’s efforts.”
North Korea’s Kim then replied, “We will first change the Workers’ Party platform,” which stipulates the North’s goal of achieving a communist unification.
Pyongyang, however, never did rewrite its platform and the National Security Law was not dropped.
Yesterday, “the Roh administration stirred up an unnecessary debate,” said Kim Tae-hyo, a political scientist at Sungkyunkwan University.
He said the issue is separate from the question of the North rewriting its party platform. “North Korea is run by a few powerful elites, and a change in the wording of its party platform means nothing,” Kim said. “In contrast, legislative changes in South Korea are actually implemented. Therefore, the abolishment of the National Security Law will only disarm the South ideologically without any gains.”

People like KJI or Kim Young Nam are not used to compromise because the creation of a “peace regime” would require the creation of a new form of government that truly unifies all, regardless of history. As it is now, there is no one banner that all would be willing to rally under. Such a “regime” does not exist and would have to be created but I see no willingness on either side to do such a revolutionary thing.

If the National Security Law goes, so must the platform of North Korean ideology disappear and all the rhetoric that goes with it. When I see KJI put on a new suit and leave his paraphernalia behind, I might start to wonder if he is serious about a new beginning.

…which will make it easier for South Korean gangs to smuggle in North Korean drugs and counterfeit currency.