If Trump “Ends” The Korean War, It Is Only Proof That A US-Backed War Between Japan And China Is Coming

The Korean War has technically never ended, with hostilities ceasing only in 1953 with a negotiated armistice but no peace. President Trump and President Moon of South Korea may soon put an “end” to the war as early as this week according to a report:

South Korean officials on Monday indicated that President Trump and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, could agree on a joint political statement declaring an end to the 1950-53 Korean War when they meet in Hanoi, Vietnam, later this week.

“The possibility is open,” said Kim Eui-kyeom, a spokesman for South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, referring to the results expected from the Trump-Kim summit meeting scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. “We still don’t know exactly what format the end-of-war declaration will take, but there is an ample possibility of North Korea and the United States agreeing to such a declaration.”

Mr. Moon has strongly advocated an end-of-war declaration to build trust between North Korea and the United States and to prod the North to move toward giving up its nuclear weapons. The North and the United States have remained technically at war since the Korean War was halted in a truce in 1953, and Washington still keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea to prevent the war from rekindling.

Until now, South Korean officials, who are closely monitoring pre-summit meeting negotiations between North Korea and the United States, had sounded skeptical that Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim would agree to an end-of-war declaration during their Hanoi meeting. The remarks by the South Korean spokesman indicated such a declaration was now being seriously discussed as Mr. Trump seeks to encourage Mr. Kim to take steps toward denuclearization.

As Mr. Kim heads to Hanoi by train, North Korean and American negotiators are already there trying to hammer out an agenda and other details for the summit meeting, including what first steps toward denuclearization North Korea should take. North Korea has offered to dismantle its nuclear complex in Yongbyon, which houses plutonium and uranium enrichment facilities, but said it would do so only when the United States took “corresponding” trust-building measures.

When they met for the first time, in June in Singapore, Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim produced a vaguely worded agreement to build “new” relations between their countries, and to work toward a peace regime and “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” — but the agreement was short on specifics.

Subsequent talks between the two countries have stalled over how to carry out the Singapore deal, as North Korea insisted that the United States must first ease sanctions.

But Washington has been reluctant to do so, since sanctions are the strongest leverage it has on the impoverished country. On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States had no intention of easing the United Nations Security Council’s toughest sanctions against North Korea until it achieved a full, verifiable denuclearization of North Korea. He added, however, that the United States might relax other restrictions.

“The core economic sanctions, the sanctions that prevent countries from conducting trade, creating wealth for North Korea, those sanctions are definitely going to remain in place,” Mr. Pompeo told CNN. “We’ve said consistently full, verified denuclearization — that’s the standard for relieving those sanctions.”

Instead, American negotiators have been studying noneconomic incentives for the North, such as an end-of-war declaration or the exchange of liaison offices between Pyongyang and Washington, according to South Korean officials familiar with Washington’s talks with North Korean officials.

But it remained unclear whether an end-of-war declaration would convince the North to commit to the kind of serious steps toward denuclearization that Washington demands, according to South Korean analysts and officials, who say the North will likely calibrate its commitment to denuclearization on whether Mr. Trump grants sanctions relief, the North’s top priority.

American and South Korean analysts have expressed fear that declaring an end to the war would give Mr. Kim reason to demand that the United States withdraw its 28,500 troops from the South while the North remains a nuclear-armed state.

But South Korean officials said the declaration would be merely a “political statement” that would “give the North Koreans some comfort.” North Korea has long argued that it was forced to develop a nuclear deterrent because of American “hostility,” and that it would keep that deterrent until it felt safe from American aggression.

Mr. Kim, the South Korean presidential spokesman, said on Monday that an end-of-war declaration would not replace the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement but rather serve as “an entrance point” for starting complex negotiations for replacing the armistice with a formal peace treaty. Mr. Moon has also said that an end-of-war declaration should not affect the American military presence in South Korea or his country’s alliance with the United States, which he said served a broader role in regional security.

South Korea had earlier hoped that an end-of-war declaration would be made in the presence of Mr. Moon and even China’s president, Xi Jinping. China fought for North Korea during the war, while American troops fought alongside the South Koreans.

But on Monday, Mr. Kim, the presidential spokesman, said that unlike a peace treaty that should be negotiated among the two Koreas, the United States and China, a bilateral end-of-war declaration between the United States and North Korea could be enough. The United States and South Korea now have formal diplomatic ties with China, making such a declaration irrelevant to Beijing. South and North Korea have signed military and other agreements in recent months that Mr. Kim said were tantamount to a nonaggression treaty.

“The North and the United States are the only ones remaining, and if the two declare an end to the war, it will mean that all the four countries that fought war on the Korean Peninsula have declared an end to war,” he said. “Our government welcomes an end-of-war declaration no matter what format it might take, as long as it helps encourage and advance denuclearization.”

But the spokesman said an end-of-war declaration is “different from the peace treaty.” The peace treaty could be signed only “at the end stage of denuclearization,” he said.

Mr. Moon on Monday urged his people to prepare for a possible fundamental shift in relations on the Korean Peninsula after the Hanoi summit meeting.

“If the upcoming summit produces results, now is the real beginning,” he was quoted as saying during a meeting with his senior presidential staff. “Standing at the center of history, not the periphery, we will take the lead in preparing for a new Korean Peninsula regime — one that is moving from war and confrontation toward peace and harmony, and from factionalism and ideology toward economic prosperity.” (source, source)

This would seem to be good. Ending “conflicts” is generally speaking motion in the right direction.

However, in this situation it may not be so.

North Korea is one of the weakest and most powerless nations in the world. However, it is at the crossroads of four major powers- China, Russia, Japan, and by her naval presence and historical alliance with Japan the US. North Korea is not a threat to the world, but a toothless paper tiger that any of these neighboring countries could easily snuff out if they desired.

The reason why North Korea is left alone is because she is a political tool used by all four nations, representing essentially two-and-a-half sides. One side is the US-Japan alliance, and the other side is Russia and China who are allies out of proximity and necessity but not friendship, and who in spite of their public statements are very much violently opposed to each other. North Korea is a useful football to laud or blame for regional problems that serves as a proxy for the serious issues between the nations in that area which could lead to a major war.

This is an important reason why the Korean war never technically “ended,” because the conflict reflects the tensions between the regional neighbors and of which there is no real resolution because even a declaration of “peace” could bring about circumstances which lead to war. However, given Trump’s continual remilitarization of Japan that he has openly spoken about, it is the reason why such peace would be desired, as it would be a step towards war.

Part of the conditions for such a peace involve dismantling North Korea’s nuclear facilities, which is something that the US gave to the North Koreans, and as noted above, it comes at a time when the Americans are helping the Japanese acquire nuclear capabilites.

To end the war and have peace with both nations, essentially “brokered” here by President Trump in name, opens the way for friendly relations between the two Koreas and to that Japan. This is important because the Koreas have a deep rooted hatred for the Japanese after the Japanese abuse of Koreans in the Second World War, a crime for which they still refuse to apologize.

North Korea’s location makes her a passage into China, but most importantly into Northeastern China, called Manchuria (the region of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang Provinces), which is the economic heart of China. It is the location of a great number of her factories and is historically her most resource-filled part. If Manchuria were to be taken, China would be economically crippled, and it is for this reason that in every war where Japan invades China, one of the first things the Japanese do is to take Manchuria. This also opens up the way to Blagoveshchensk, a Russian city on the border with China, which leads into Siberia and which the Japanese also have taken in the past and attempted to wrest from the Russians.

Notice how in the story, the South Korean President expressed that peace negotiations originally did but do not involve China any longer, but simply North Korea. This is because, as the Koreans know, Chinese involvement would absolutely interfere with or change the terms of negotiations to make them less amenable to Japanese influence in the Korean Peninsula. By simply having the Koreas involved, it allows Japan to enter in at a later point to influence the direction of regional policy far more than she would be able to if China was involved, and this was likely forced by the hand of the US. Likewise, it was also telling how the “peace” negotiations would be held in Vietnam, for it is not that Vietnam is a “neutral” country that she was likely chosen, but because Vietnam is a historical enemy of China yet also is a major food supplier to China, and coming at a time when the US is aggressively building diplomatic relationships all throughout southeast Asia in preparation for a future alliance with them against China, primarily to cut off her food supplies.

Perhaps a resolution will come this week, and perhaps not. However, the fact that Trump is talking about peace with the Koreas while at the same time rebuilding the Japanese army as Japanese nationalism is rising again is an omen for those who can see. Another major war is coming, it is desired by the Americans for economic and geopolitical purposes, it will be very similar to the previous world wars except it will be deadlier for more people and with more heinous weapons.

This is not a sign of peace, but of a future rape of Nanking, something which the Japanese still deny, the denial of which is categorically considered to be an essential part of Japanese nationalism, and something which the Japanese are looking forward to doing again, being allowed to and facilitated by American actions.

This is not “Making America Great Again,” but rather “Making Japan Imperial Again.”

Just as how Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize for the peace people assumed he would make and in so doing engaged in actions that worsened the continual massacre of the Christians of Syria, it is rather ironic that Trump has essentially “one-upped” Obama as he insisted that he would be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and by of all countries Japan, who together with Germany are actively taking steps towards fomenting a Third World War.