{"id":110126,"date":"2018-04-30T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=110126"},"modified":"2018-04-27T16:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T15:49:55","slug":"a-piece-of-world-peace-history-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/a-piece-of-world-peace-history-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"A Piece of World Peace History In-The-Making"},"content":{"rendered":"

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27 Apr 2017 – <\/em>Please watch the video below carefully. You\u2019ll see what could \u2013 could, and most likely will \u2013 become a piece of world peace history. Note the body language of the two leaders \u2013 warm smiles and long handshakes. In spite of being one and the same nation, they meet at the hardest border in the world.<\/p>\n

Why is it so? Because everybody else around \u2013 the US, Japan, Russia, China \u2013 to varying degrees want them to be divided and feel threatened by their possible unification. And yes, a unified Korea would be a formidable economic power but a huge, dangerous conflict would be gone, the US could withdraw, Japan would get a chance for reconciliation in substantive terms.<\/p>\n

What is most amazing <\/em>in this clip<\/em> is that Kim first steps over the border line into the South. Then \u2013 seemingly surprising Moon \u2013 invites Moon to step into the North, hand in hand. Hear the people nearby applauding.<\/p>\n

This is historic peace-making in-the-making.<\/p>\n

So much more convincing and promising than today\u2019s Western\/NATO norm: \u201cpeace\u201d by violence, imposed from the outside. By us\/US.<\/p>\n

Here are two<\/em> statesmen and the Western derogative image of Kim must now be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m personally very tired of all the media and political commentators who, without a second thought, support NATO countries\u2019 bombing in the name of peace, democracy and human rights \u2013 today must<\/em> say that it could all be a ploy by \u201cthe Rocket Man\u201d. Kim and the people around him are obviously very competent politicians with a longterm strategy.<\/p>\n

In these otherwise dark times, let\u2019s be hopeful that peace is what it will really unfold \u2013 a peace that takes place without the US or other foreign parties. It\u2019s genuinely Korean thanks to both historical developments but also two personalities who both seem to have the right attitude and build on what all conflict-resolution must<\/em> focus on: An identification of common or overlapping interests combined with a view of the future that is so much more benefit than continue enmity.<\/p>\n