The agreement is a non-legally binding diplomatic agreement as a part of the Panmunjom Declaration, but it’s still an agreement that specifically cites North Korea promises to seek to denuclearize and to cease military escalations (the escalations are promised between both NK and SK). It was signed by NK and SK leaders, and affirmed by the US meeting with NK as described in the agreement.
There is absolutely no way to spin this as saying there is no agreement, though you could massage that the agreement isn’t technically violated even though the spirit of the agreement is absolutely being violated. I don’t think NK and SK set a schedule, which is part of the agreement - an agreement that without uncertainty exists and which explicitly says that the Korean peninsula will be nuclear-free.
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See this thread:
And this burst of privileged white idiocy in the comments:
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Begins with Noam’s usual Madison/Aristotle thing, plus some interesting extra stuff on the end.
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It’s a common trope, especially in sci-fi, that, when a greater threat appears, the wrong groups will forget their differences and unite to oppose it.
I mean, short term, maybe? But in the long term, if you’re allies of convenience against a bigger threat, you’ll stop being allies when it stops being convenient.
Take the Middle East. Most of the various sects of Islam are united in their belief that Palestine should not be in the hands of the Israelis. That doesn’t stop the Sunnis and the Shi’ites and the Kurds (etc. etc.) from killing each other, even with a common threat present that they might unify against.
No one truly believes that having a common enemy makes people friends; they only pay lip service to the idea on the hope that their new “friends” will believe it and leave their backs open to the knife.
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My search didn’t give me any good answers…what is the difference between Universal Basic Income and Universal Basic Wealth?
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