Speaking of North Korean delegations, Pyongyang has made known its intention to send a mourning delegation to South Korea to honor the passing of late president Kim Dae-jung:
Observers are suggesting late President Kim Dae-jung’s “final gift” to South Korea is coming in the form of North Korea’s mourning delegation. Many are hoping the delegation’s visit to honor the passing of Kim, who dedicated his entire life to overcoming national division and working to establish peace and unification, may serve as stone in the foundation for improving chilly inter-Korean relations. Some are saying North Korea’s intention to send a delegation pays great respect to Kim Dae-jung, who together with Kim Jong-il was responsible for bringing about the June 15 Joint Declaration that is regarded by North Korea as both a monument and charter for national reunification.
The Hani looks at who might be in the delegation and how long it might stay. In particular, it suggests that the visit could become an opportunity to hold unofficial high-level governmental talks.
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It sounds like someone (read: Clinton?) has said something (read: Money?) to Kim Jong-il regarding their actions. The North are being very helpful right now, and I think that’s great. Hopefully it’ll usher in a new era of peace on the peninsula.
Or hell, maybe the teenager North of the Border, who’s been slamming his bedroom door for too many years, has finally grown into a man.
Smoking narcotics filterd through the soju-loaded bong again.
For Hani, everything that happens between North and South is an opportunity for an improvement in the relations. “Missile tests provide a welcome opportunity for a new start in South-North relations. The ball is now in the hands of Lee Myung-bak.”
Of course North Korean Communism is quirkily North Korea, but it is still old school Communism to the degree that the observers of the success of KDJ’s policies towards the North should have taken into account that in the history of Communism the “peaceful coexistence” with capitalist countries was a time of heightened ideological struggle even if military confrontation had been toned down. (I only thought of that when reading on Communism in Finland and Finnish-Soviet relations.)
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