The DPRK is safe - For now.

The US and the DPRK have reached an agreement which transforms the ceasefire of 1953 into Peace.  Today's Summit is a historic occasion in which the aggressors of the USA have finally recognised the right of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to be a sovereign nation.

The key points of the summit declaration statement are as follows:

• The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new U.S.–DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.
• The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.
• Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearising of the Korean Peninsula.
• The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.

SMPBI cautiously welcomes the outcome of the Summit. However, there are worrying parallels to be drawn with other countries which have effectively disarmed themselves in the pursuit of peace with the USA.

Iraq and Libya are key example of nations which were threatened by the USA.  In both cases, following the destruction of their defensive capabilities, they were invaded and destroyed, They sought peace, and to prove their sincerity made themselves vulnerable. The US criminals took full advantage, and now Iraq is an occupied country, and Libya is in ruins.

If the US modus operandi follows as it always has, then Kim Jong Un (just as Saddam Hussein and Muammar al Gaddafi before him), may well have just signed his own death warrant, and opened the path for his country to be wrecked by a fake 'colour revolution' and/or a military attack.

The DPRK has started down a dangerous path. Creeping economic liberalisation threatens to let the Capitalist parasites back into the country. The existence of a McDonalds in Pyongyang is an illustration of the backwards steps away from the Juche idea.

Has Kim Jong Un saved his country from destruction by the USA, or opened the path for just that?  We hope that this summit is the path to peace.  Ideally this could be the starting point for reunification of Korea under the ideals of Juche, not the barbarism of Capitalism.  We will probably not have too long to wait to see if this was a superb piece of diplomacy, or the leadership of the DPRK walking into a trap.