Unification Minister Hints that ROK & U.S. May Have Agreement on Korean War Peace Treaty
I am concerned that with the Biden administration’s falling approval ratings that they would agree to a Korean War Peace Treaty just to get an easy foreign policy victory. The temptation of a Nobel Peace Prize might be enough to get the them to agree to it. The below comments from the Unification Minister has me worried that the Moon administration has been successful in getting the Biden administration to agree to the peace treaty:
Discussions over an end-of-war declaration with North Korea will soon come to a close, a South Korean government official said.
The country’s Ministry of Unification chief, Lee In-young, made the remarks during an academic conference at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies’ campus in Seoul on Friday.
The Unification Minister said Seoul and Washington, D.C., “have been holding deep discussions very seriously” regarding a declaration to formally end the war, adding that it “is coming to a finish to some degree.”
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You can read more at the link, but a peace treaty is a bad idea for a variety of reasons I have explained before.
So you’re against finally ending a 71-year-old war on the peninsula. And no, you have not explained satisfactorily why this is a bad idea.
The possibility of the US military being told to leave Korea is not a good reason that the war stoppage is a bad idea.