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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNorth and South Korea agree to work toward 'common goal' of denuclearization
By Anna Fifield April 27 at 8:39 AM
GOYANG, South Korea The leaders of North and South Korea made bold pledges Friday to work toward a common goal of denuclearizing their peninsula and formally ending the Korean War by the end of this year, following a historic day of talks on the border that has divided them for almost seven decades.
It was a day marked by an astonishing level of congeniality between the two, including a warm embrace at the signing of the Panmunjeom Declaration, named after the truce village in the Demilitarized Zone where it was forged.
It was, however, short on details as to what denuclearization means for each of them.
Still, the fact that Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in spent so much time together and came up with a joint statement that even includes the word denuclearization marked a surprising development after a year of threats and missile launches that brought the specter of war back to the Korean Peninsula.
[Full text of the Panmunjeom Declaration]
This provides the political space for Trump to have his own summit with Kim, said Duyeon Kim, a visiting fellow at the Korean Peninsula Future Forum in Seoul. Whether or not Kim Jong Un means it is a completely different story.
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North and South Korea agree to work toward 'common goal' of denuclearization (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2018
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)1. Kick & Recommended
Now Trump can't take credit for this.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)2. I hope this is successful.
The North Korean people have endured so much hardship. The people in North Korea and South Korea are all related. Families were just torn apart.
Now I hope they can heal.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)3. Seems a good conclusion since THEIR ENTIRE NUKE SITE HAS COLLAPSED
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-43894394
North Korea test site could be unusable after collapse - Chinese scientists
25 April 2018
Chinese scientists have concluded that North Korea's nuclear test site has partially collapsed, potentially rendering it unusable.
The test site at Punggye-ri has been used for six nuclear tests since 2006.
After the last, in September, a series of aftershocks hit the site, which seismologists believe collapsed part of the mountain's interior.
On Saturday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced he was suspending his country's nuclear and missile tests.
The surprise declaration came ahead of historic talks with South Korea and the US.
The latest research from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is due to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, in the coming days.
It concluded that eight and a half minutes after September's test, there was "a near-vertical on-site collapse towards the nuclear test centre".
What do we know about N Korea's nuclear site?
Why has Kim Jong-un halted North Korean tests now?
The Punggye-ri site is situated in mountainous terrain in North Korea's north-east, and tests have taken place in a system of tunnels dug below Mount Mantap.
A one-page summary of the research on the USTC website concluded: "The occurrence of the collapse should deem the underground infrastructure beneath mountain Mantap not be used for any future nuclear tests."
But those words do not appear in the final peer-reviewed paper.
It instead says that the "collapse in the test site calls for continued close monitoring of any leaks of radioactive materials".
Prof Wen Lianxing, the lead author of the study, told the Wall Street Journal that the conclusion about the test site's viability would not be included in the published paper, but did not say why.
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North Korea test site could be unusable after collapse - Chinese scientists
25 April 2018
Chinese scientists have concluded that North Korea's nuclear test site has partially collapsed, potentially rendering it unusable.
The test site at Punggye-ri has been used for six nuclear tests since 2006.
After the last, in September, a series of aftershocks hit the site, which seismologists believe collapsed part of the mountain's interior.
On Saturday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced he was suspending his country's nuclear and missile tests.
The surprise declaration came ahead of historic talks with South Korea and the US.
The latest research from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is due to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, in the coming days.
It concluded that eight and a half minutes after September's test, there was "a near-vertical on-site collapse towards the nuclear test centre".
What do we know about N Korea's nuclear site?
Why has Kim Jong-un halted North Korean tests now?
The Punggye-ri site is situated in mountainous terrain in North Korea's north-east, and tests have taken place in a system of tunnels dug below Mount Mantap.
A one-page summary of the research on the USTC website concluded: "The occurrence of the collapse should deem the underground infrastructure beneath mountain Mantap not be used for any future nuclear tests."
But those words do not appear in the final peer-reviewed paper.
It instead says that the "collapse in the test site calls for continued close monitoring of any leaks of radioactive materials".
Prof Wen Lianxing, the lead author of the study, told the Wall Street Journal that the conclusion about the test site's viability would not be included in the published paper, but did not say why.
MORE...
ooky
(8,933 posts)4. Great. Now we can get out. Right?
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,928 posts)6. Doubtful
I would expect a drawdown perhaps, but I dont see all US forces leaving. The South China Sea is going to be the next global flashpoint of things continue as they are. We are maintaining forces all around that area for this reason. A presence in South Korea keeps forces near, but not immediately next to the area and provides a bolster for Japan.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)5. Trump will have succeeded in getting the Nobel Prize for Kim Jung Un....
....a totally unthinkable accomplishment.