Despite Provocations President Moon Wants to Move Forward with North Korean Aid Plan
It seems to me that every dollar South Korea spends on aid to North Korea is one more dollar that the Kim regime can divert towards its missile and nuclear programs:
President Moon Jae-in suggested Friday that South Korea could go ahead with humanitarian aid to North Korea in a thinly veiled rejection of a call for caution by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Abe asked Moon to consider the timing of the proposed aid during their phone conversation, but Moon said aid is an issue that should be dealt with regardless of political situations, an official said.
Moon said monitoring is a precondition to the aid in an apparent attempt to ensure that the aid reaches its intended beneficiaries in North Korea.
South Korea is set to decide next Thursday whether to approve the aid to infants and pregnant women in North Korea. If approved, it would mark the resumption of Seoul’s aid to North Korea via U.N. organizations, last carried out in December 2015. [Yonhap]
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He’s channeling his inner Roh Moo-hyun. What’s that they say about history repeating itself?
Moon is a complete fool , we as American tax payers should demand to leave South Korea. 60 years of American tax dollars for this? The leftist South Korean government is insane. Get out of South Korea now.
I think what they say is either – Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, or – everything in history happens twice, the first time as tragedy but the second time as farce. Mr Moon is on the farcial end of things, I guess. And note the shape of the proposed aid: who could say no to kids and pregnant women? As long as Moon sticks to clear monitoring, it’s unlikely the proposal will ever get off the ground, as NK has a history of not allowing any significant monitoring of end use of aid.