DPRK Forum

Two pieces of news today. It is basically a rehash, but this may interest readers anyway. The first from Chosun Ilbo:

In an interview with Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper, President Roh Moo-hyun said mutual trust had to be established before a peace treaty could be concluded with North Korea. “(The concerned parties) are supposed to make promises that each can trust, declare peace and an end to the war when those promises reach a trustworthy level, and afterwards conduct peace talks and nuclear dismantlement simultaneously, aren’t they?” Roh said. (emphasis mine)

Huh? That does not make a whole lot of sense. He said earlier disablement and eventual dismantling can take a long time. So is this implying the peace talks can take just as long? I simply do not understand the line of thinking here. There are doubts that a peace treaty can be done before Roh is gone according to the Korea Times:

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