South Korea announced that its President Moon Jay-in would meet with North Korea's President Kim Jong in summit on April 27. Both sides will examine working level discussions on the agenda. It will be the first meeting between the countries leaders since 2007. The tone of the summit this time should be different since South Korea's leader after being elected expressed a desire to have dialog with the North instead of confrontation.
Could the two leaders surprise the world at the summit and come to agreement that would bring the two countries closer together and away from future threats? Will they take on the issue of unification and a more active role in determining their own country's fate without external influence? Will they concern themselves with other issues previously written about in past PolitiDose commentary? Those were issues no one else even wanted to talk about.
The most significant question would be, could Moon and Kim come to a resolution dealing with the North's nuclear weapons that would make the proposed meeting with Trump moot? There are a lot of good things that can come out of the summit if both leaders are sincere and think the status quo has to change for the better.
The bottom line is North Korea is not going to attack anyone because it could not survive a war itself. Kim has received the attention he was seeking and now the only way left is to move his country and its people in another direction of progress and peace and join the world community.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
