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USA Today <\/a>has peeled away five key demands that North Korean dictator\/goofball Kim Jong Un is making on the United States and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

I want to examine them briefly over the course of the next couple of days. I’ll do so one at a time in this blog.<\/p>\n

Here is one demand: A peace treaty that ends the Korean War.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The carnage ended in 1953 after three bloody years on the Korean Peninsula. Kim Il Sung, the current dictator’s grandfather, decided to “unify” the peninsula by invading South Korea in 1950. The United Nations responded with a substantial military force dominated by — who else? — American troops.<\/p>\n

The U.N. force pushed the North Koreans back across the 38th Parallel and got to China’s doorstep in the north. That’s when the People’s Republic of China intervened. The PRC deployed hundreds of thousands of troops against the U.N.<\/p>\n

All told, nearly\u00a0 50,000 Americans died in that struggle.<\/p>\n

They signed a ceasefire. But no peace treaty<\/em>.\u00a0As a result, South and North Korea remain to this very day technically “at war.”<\/p>\n

What does a peace treaty mean? Does it mean a unified Korea? Or might it put in place a permanent divide between the sovereign nations?<\/p>\n

The PRC won’t tolerate a unified Korea under the guidance of a democratic Republic of (South) Korea. The Chinese will insist on having a fellow communist state along its border. And you can bet that there’s no way in the world that the United Nations, let alone the United States, is going to agree to a communist dictatorship governing the entire peninsula.<\/p>\n

Remember, the North Koreans started the fight in 1950. Does anyone believe the U.N. is going to allow them to be rewarded<\/em> by giving them the entire land mass?<\/p>\n

I suppose the only solution is to keep the two Koreas separate, with the commies running the northern portion and the democrats running the southern area.<\/p>\n

But who in the world can trust the North Koreans to remain faithful to a peace treaty after we take down the massive armaments on both sides of the so-called “demilitarized zone”?<\/p>\n

A peace treaty, thus, remains a major impediment to resolving this serious crisis.<\/p>\n\n

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USA Today has peeled away five key demands that North Korean dictator\/goofball Kim Jong Un is making on the United States and the rest of the world. I want to examine them briefly over the course of the next couple of days. I’ll do so one at a time in this blog. Here is one … Continue reading What does Kim Jong Un want?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2695,3694,5014],"class_list":["post-23780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-korean-war","tag-prc","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23782,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780\/revisions\/23782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}