South Korean Defense White Paper Looks to Remove North Korea as an “Enemy”

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to call the North Koreans since South Korea doesn’t want to use the word “enemy”?:

South Korea is considering deleting its reference to North Korea’s military as “our enemy” in its defense white paper to be published later this year, multiple government sources in Seoul said Wednesday.

The move is in line with the April inter-Korean summit agreement to halt “all hostile acts” against each other, seek to alleviate tensions and “practically eliminate the danger of war.”

“It would be contradictory if we hold consultations (with the North) over measures to halt hostile acts, which are mentioned in the Panmunjom Declaration, while leaving the description of the North Korean military as an enemy in our government’s official paper,” a government source told Yonhap News Agency on condition of anonymity.

“We have been striving to come up with a way to use a phrase or word that would sufficiently reflect the North’s military threat instead of using the ‘enemy’ expression,” he added.  [Yonhap]

You can read more at the link, but here we go again with the pretend game.  We already have “pretend denuclearization” going on and now we have “pretend non-enemies”.