Unification Minster Nominee Vows to Find Ways to Avoid Sanctions on North Korea
South Korea’s Unification Minister nominee has essentially said that he plans to find ways to work around sanctions to pay off North Korea:
The government has hinted that it will seek to revamp the beleaguered South Korea-U.S. working group, a forum to coordinate North Korea-related issues, as part of its plan to push for more inter-Korean cooperation.
Korea Times
The organization, set up in November 2018, has taken flak for allegedly hindering progress in inter-Korean ties due to its excessively harsh standards adopted on Pyongyang, and there have been growing calls here for restructuring its operation or even dismantling it.
Lee In-young, the unification minister nominee, said Monday that he plans to distinguish what the government can do on its own with the North from what it can do under the format of the working group.
“If I take office, I will review what the working group has done so far and take additional measures (to promote inter-Korean exchanges and cooperation), based on my ideas regarding inter-Korean affairs,” Lee told reporters upon arriving at the Office of Inter-Korean Dialogue to prepare for his National Assembly confirmation hearing.
You can read more at the link, but as I have been saying this is why the Kim regime blew up the Inter-Korean Liaison Office; to force North Korea to separate from the U.S.’s North Korea policy and violate sanctions. If South Korea finds ways to violate sanctions that will be a green light to other nations to do so as well.
I’ve wondered on occasion what would happen if every sanction were lifted without condition? Encourage McDonalds, Burger King, Coca-Cola, Nike to all go and set up shop? Put a 7/11 on every other corner, ask the NBA to have an exhibition game or two there. It would chuck Juche right out the window and introduce the world to the Norks. I suspect regime change would happen without the US or the ROK firing a shot. Or I could be totally wrong and kim fatty the third would get his hands on enough food to kill himself faster and give the Norks enough hard cash to finish their nuclear ambitions faster.
Doc, it would probably do both.
Would probably be like China. Steal all the IP and technology and cast the evil imperialists away with copycat products. Fatty III would probably get big enough to become Fatty IV.