Moving further and further away from a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula

[UMG] Moving further and further away from a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula
28-09-2018

It was reported that Kim Jong Un expressed his willingness to take additional measures for the denuclearization of North Korea.

There are some who argue that Kim Jong Un has expressed enough willingness to denuclearize, so the United States should abandon its old position of ‘denuclearization first, then end-of-war declaration.’

These arguments are portraying the US as being ‘abnormal’ for pushing North Korea to follow the proper process of dismantlement, while depicting Kim Jong Un, who is dragging along the dismantlement process, as being ‘normal.’


Right now, we are standing at a crossroads.

Down one path is moving forward without receiving a list of nuclear facilities and holding a second US-North Korea Summit to adopt the end-of-war declaration; and taking measures such as the lifting of sanctions in response to the dismantlement of the Yeongbyeon nuclear facilities.

This is exactly what Kim Jong Un wants.

The second path is what can be seen as the normal denuclearization process like receiving the list of nuclear facilities first, then adopting the end-of-war declaration and then proceeding fully with the denuclearization process based on the list received.


If the process of North Korea’s nuclear dismantlement goes down to Kim Jong Un’s path, denuclearization will not be closer to us but rather more distant and our children and their descendants will have to live their lives in suspense with North Korea’s nuclear weapons looming over them.

北朝鮮のペースで非核化するということは、非核化しないのと同じことだ、というわけで、現実的な発言。