Sovereignty Is the Key

Here is analysis by Tim Shorrock:

By the second week of 2019, analysts were still trying to decide whether Kim Jong-un’s New Year’s speech was a ringing endorsement for peace talks leading to North-South Korean reconciliation, or a veiled threat to restart the country’s nuclear weapons program if the United States didn’t meet Kim’s demand of ending the sanctions imposed on his beleaguered juche economy.

It seems that both perspectives miss an important ingredient in Kim’s proposals: a new iteration of nationalism aimed at protecting the entire Korean nation - not just Kim’s domain in the North - from foreign interference. That’s how I read the section towards the end of his much-discussed address, when Kim introduced the term “sovereignty of the country.” By using these words, I think Kim is hoping to ignite an important shift in the political dynamics on the Korean Peninsula.

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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/kim-jong-uns-new-years-day-speech-understanding-%E2%80%98sovereignty%E2%80%99-key-41012

Any serious look at what Kim, Putin, and Xi have been saying will reveal that a key issue for them is America's disregard for their sovereignty. We could easily alleviate most of the strife in the world just by leaving people alone to live their own lives as they see fit.