Speaker Pelosi Clashes with ROK Delegation Over North Korea and Japan

I never thought I would type these words, but go Speaker Pelosi:

A South Korean delegation of lawmakers visiting Washington this week for talks with U.S. officials ahead of the second U.S.-North summit clashed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over Pyongyang’s true intentions after she accused the North of pursuing South Korea’s “demilitarization.”

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North Korea would love demilitarization of South Korea, but the Kim regime knows they won’t get that. What they are hoping for is military superiority in order to extort the North Korea. This is what the pursuit of a peace treaty is about, ending the US-ROK alliance while keeping their nuclear weapons that gives them military superiority over the South.

Here is what the ROK delegation said in response:

When Rep. Chung Dong-young of the minor leftist Party for Democracy and Peace replied that forging ties with the North like the United States did with Vietnam would help the United States “expand its national interest,” Pelosi shot back that she doesn’t trust the North. 

The Kim regime has done nothing to earn trust. By the way Chung Dong-young used to be the Unification Minister during the Roh Moo-hyun administration in South Korea who has a long history of anti-Americanism and Kim regime appeasing.

At one point, Pelosi reportedly said last year’s first summit between North Korea and the United States was nothing but a show, and that U.S. President Donald Trump failed to return home with any accomplishments. Pelosi continued, saying she wanted to see real proof that Pyongyang was denuclearizing. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, she added, is trying to demilitarize the South, not give up his nuclear weapons.

The Kim regime is willing to do “pretend denuclearization”, but I have not seen any evidence they intend to really denuclearize. I think the Trump administration is beginning to realize this as well and is why they are focusing on ending the ICBM program which they may have more success doing.

The Japanese even came up during this meeting:

National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang, who led the South Korean delegation, said Pelosi also brought up his recent spat with the Japanese government and told him she was worried about strained ties between Seoul and Tokyo, adding she hopes they settle the issues soon. Moon said he felt Pelosi made the comment due to Japan’s request. 

I wish Pelosi would have hit back at him with my line by asking him to call for Kim Jong-un to hold hands and apologize to the victims of the Korean War, something his grandfather caused that was far more destructive than anything the Japanese ever did to South Korea. Or call for him to hold hands and apologize to the families of South Koreans abducted over the years by North Korea. Better yet will he call for Kim Jong-un to hold hands with the families of the victims of the Cheonan sinking and Yeonpyeong Island shelling. I would have loved to have seen his reaction.

This how Moon Hee-sang the ROK Parliament Speaker ended the meeting:

Unfazed, Moon told reporters during the press briefing that “the era of Pax Koreana” has arrived, and that the K-pop sensation BTS and Andy Kim, a Democratic New Jersey House representative of Korean descent, are “conquering the world from New York.”

Andy Kim and BTS are conquering the world? I really hope this is a mistranslation because this is almost as delusional as believing that Kim Jong-un really wants to denuclearize.