Report: North Korea, South Korea agree to march together at Olympics

[DonViejo]

Source: Yahoo News




Jay Busbee Fourth-Place Medal Jan 17, 2018, 8:46 AM

In what would be a major symbolic moment, the governments of North Korea and South Korea have agreed to march together to open the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, according to a new AP report.

South Korean officials said that the two nations will march under a unified flag under the terms of an agreement reached Wednesday in the border village of Panmunjom. The measure requires the approval of the International Olympic Committee, and the countries will present the plan to the IOC later this week.

The two nations will also form a shared women’s ice hockey team, and North Korea will send a 230-person “cheering squad” to the Olympics.

Although the discussions, the first in two years, are a positive step in warming relations between the two countries, Japan in particular has warned against falling for North Korea’s “charm offensive.” North Korea has refused to halt development of new nuclear missiles, and has fired missiles over Japan, despite increasingly severe U.N. sanctions.

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[Zambero]

1. Since Trump has abdicated leadership...

AND decimated the State Dept., our allies and adversaries are choosing to go it alone without any U.S. "help". Create a diplomatic vacuum and it will ultimately be filled, for better or worse. Symbolic as it might be, this appears to be a hopeful development.

[Javaman]

3. I posted this about a week and a half ago...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1951883

Bait and Switch...

NK completely played the trumpster fire...

They baited him into him acting as himself; and egomaniac who is completely incapable of negotiating himself out of a wet paper bag. The world and especially the Asian nations saw how unhinged the orange asshole is and decided to take matters into their own hands, thus marginalizing the U.S.

That was the entire purpose of NK during all of this.

In the past, it has always been the U.S. that was the arbiter of what was good and bad when dealing with NK. Aka using carrot and stick.

But NK played tRump into only using the stick and as a result, the rest of the thinking world basically said to tRump, in actions but not words, "go away, we will handle this"

And NK was just fine with that.

They now get a place at the negotiating table and U.S. is now marginalized completely.

Game, set, match.

[Nitram]

2. What could go wrong?