President Yoon Accuses Previous Administration of Promoting a Fake Peace with North Korea
President Yoon become the first president in seven years to chair the annual Integrated Defense Council meeting. He plans to chair the meeting every year while he is president:
President Yoon Suk Yeol accused the previous administration on Wednesday of weakening the country’s defense posture by neglecting necessary drills and relying on a “fake peace.”
Yoon made the remark while presiding over the annual central integrated defense council meeting in an apparent reference to former President Moon Jae-in’s push for reconciliation with North Korea.
Critics have argued the Moon administration’s peace drive bought North Korea time to advance its missile and nuclear weapons programs.
“Under the previous government the meeting was downsized, and integrated drills between the civil sector, government, military and police were not properly implemented because of its reliance on fake peace,” Yoon said during the meeting held at the former presidential compound of Cheong Wa Dae.
“As a result, there was a weakening in combining all national defense powers into one and in the implementation of the nationwide all-out war for the defense of the nation,” he said.
The meeting, designed to assess the country’s overall defense posture, was attended by some 160 officials and experts from the central and local governments, the National Intelligence Service, the military, police, Coast Guard and national fire agency.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but to be fair the previous Moon administration is not solely responsible for the current nuclear and missile threats the ROK now faces from North Korea. Every Korean president since the Kim Dae-jung administration that has paid off North Korea is responsible for funding the military threat the ROK now faces.
He’s not wrong.
The North Koreans, esp, KWP and Kim don’t want war, they want to survive and what they are really afraid is the US invading them.
Why do you think they are pouring all their resources into developing nukes and ICBMs?
Because they know that nukes and ICBMs will keep the Americans at bay.
Anyone with a brain knows that there was an opportunity for peace during the Moon administration, because it was the Moon administration that really understood what the North Koreans were really afraid of.
However the Americans especially the poorly educated Setnaffarians see the world through their limited brain powered and warmongering eyes and fail to grasp the big picture.
If Trump had not listened to the warmongering Bolton, a deal would have been reached, and although I do not think both sides would have been totally satisfied, at the least we wouldn’t see the North Koreans showing and firing off missiles.
And we wouldn’t see that buffoon Yoon complaining about the “lack of real peace”.
There is no deal that can be reached.
NK has only the goal of survival and the west cannot be trusted in any deal (e.g. Minsk Agreement).
The west can (probably for now) be trusted not to poke too hard at a country that can nuke its cities.
What Trump did (with the threat of Bolton lurking in the background) is get NK to calm down for a while.
Nobody involved though NK would “give up their nukes”. Nobody should be thinking that now.
…but then lots of people thought two weeks would flatten some kind of curve, hastily made vaccines with new technolog would save them, the security state was temporary after 9/11, inflation is good for you, and you will be happy eating the bugs.
North Korea is not a problem to solve. It is a situation to manage.
Trump managed it as well as could be expected… do your own thing and stop stirring up trouble.
This is not an easy thing to do in an environment where the military-industrial complex only sells those big weapons systems when there is a frequent reminder of credible trouble.
You don’t need ICMB-grade missile defense against the Taliban and African bush wars.
Difficulty Level: After the NK collapse, the archives will reveal which American defense contractors were subsidizing their missile tests to not only keep the threat alive but also to “collect data that keeps America’s defenses strong for a net gain” in case they get caught creating a problem and offering the expesive solution.
Fortunately, we now have Russia to simultaneously claim:
– they are almost out of ammo in a war they are constantly losing against a scrappy little country holding its own
– their military is a major threat to NATO, with Poland being the next victim, and not even Lisbon is safe
That should keep the contractors busy on the multi-gazzillion doller Unobtainium Dome to keep the hypersonics out.