Here is the latest bad idea from the Moon administration:
Lee In-young
North and South Korea should unify their economies while maintaining separate political systems, South Korean unification minister Lee In-young said on Thursday.
“Our approach now should aim more at the ‘one people, two countries, two systems, and one market’ model,” Lee told South Korea’s Seoul Shinmun newspaper, pointing to the European Union as an example of a similar system.
You can read more at the link, but any economic assistance given to the North Koreans history has shown they have used to expand their military, nuclear weapons, and missile programs at the expense of their people. This is irrefutable and what is different now to think this isn’t going to happen again?
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]
Humanitarian missions to NK slowed to a trickle under Lee MB & Park GH. Led by For Min Kang, however, Moon seems to want this back on track. pic.twitter.com/Qnc2CXm7IB
