QUESTION: What kind of fallout should we expect from North Korea's demolition of the Joint Liaison Office with South Korea, located in Kaesong, North Korea? We asked Amb. Joe Detrani, former U.S. Special Envoy to the 6 Party Talks w/the DPRK. Follow this thread for his answer.
ANSWER: "The symbolism of demolishing the Joint Liaison Office also happened on the 20th anniversary of the June 15, 2000 Peace Summit between Kim Jong-il, the father of Kim Jung-un, and Kim Dae-Jung, the leader of South Korea.
This Peace Summit ended with a declaration that both leaders would bring peace and reconciliation to the Korean Peninsula. In fact, Kim Dae-Jung received the Nobel Peace prize for this peace summit.
Given these events, and the vitriol from Kim Yo-Jung, the sister and likely heir apparent to Kim Jung-un, it’s possible the North will reintroduce the North Korean military into those sections of the DMZ that were demilitarized in 2018 – after President Moon Jae-in and
Chairman Kim Jung-un, in April of 2018, signed the Panmunjom Declaration, committing both sides to peace, prosperity and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula.
The situation on the Korean Peninsula is tense and the North, unhappy with the U.S., is holding the South responsible for not doing more to provide some sanctions relief,
especially at a time when there’s considerable malnourishment and possibly some starvation in the North, likely exacerbated by cases of Covid-19, despite the North’s protestations that they have no cases of Covid-19."
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