STATUS OF PEACE ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA

Earlier this week, I saw a half-page ad on page A5 of the Honolulu Star Advertiser, indicating that the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act was alluring but dangerous.

My initial reaction was, why would any organization deprecate an attempt at peace?  Never heard of One Korean Network (OKN) or the Korean Conservative Political Action Conference (KCPAC).  The ad was coincidental to South Korea President Moon Jae-in meeting at Pearl Harbor with Admiral Aquilino, U.S. Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

One Korea Network:  Our mission is to awaken and inform the powerful cohorts of American politicians and also thought leaders worldwide of the little known demise of South Korea. And how the dominance of China poses the real threat to freedom and democracy in the North East Region of Asia.  President is Andrew Crilly, and as I'm today featuring humdrum videos, here is a half an hour statement from him.  So I'm still a bit confused.

I searched further, and the previous day these two organizations showed a digital advertisement in New York City's Times Square, knowing that Moon would be attending the 76th UN General Assembly, accompanied by BTS.  That must have been even more expensive.  Sounds like some kind of conspiracy.

There was a sense that Republicans were involved, and, it turned out, more specifically conservatives.  Apparently, One Korean Network is relatively new and headquartered in Hawaii, or, at least with an office in Honolulu.  But the Conservative Political Action Conference has been around since 1974.  In fact, even earlier to William Buckley and the American Conservative Union. Donald Trump made several appearances with CPAC, including earlier this year.  They were wildly supportive of his efforts to make peace with Kim Jung-un.  Today, seems like they fear any kind of peace.

So I checked even further, and first found H.R. 3446, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act, introduced by Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks, California).  He appears to be credible politically, being chairman of a Financial Services subcommittee, and graduated from Harvard Law School.  There were several Democrats who also co-sponsored.  No Republicans.  Four years ago he introduced an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for firing FBI head James Comey.

Most of you reading this posting, if you got this far, probably couldn't care less about this topic.  If on Saturday morning, 13January2018, you were awakened by an intercom alarm which warned that a missile from North Korea was headed for Hawaii, you too might find interest.

At 8:10 or so the 15C emergency intercom blared (it is so loud that you would take notice even if you were in an alcoholically induced stupor--nothing I've experienced, of course):  actually, I've already forgotten the exact message, but it was something like, "stay indoors, take immediate precautions, THIS IS NOT A DRILL."  That was it.  Nothing about what was the problem.

Actually, I was only a tad worried, for that is my general nature about anything.  For example, about this COVID-19 pandemic, I actually went on a trip to Thailand in February of 2020 because I thought, here we  go again.  In 2009 I wrote an article for the Huffington Post entitled, A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu.  I don't take things seriously enough and blamed the media for the pandemic.  Maybe I should have looked closer into it, for it was the H1N1 virus that caused the Swine Flu Pandemic, the same H1N1 that was responsible for the the Spanish Flu of a century ago.

But on that issue I was right, so back to that fateful day three years ago:

In any case, the only potential catastrophe I could imagine was that North Korea had launched a missile to Hawaii and I had by that point no time to react because that would only take 20 minutes  to reach me, and about as many minutes had already elapsed.   I began to reflect on my life, which has been a series of one in a million events of amazing luck, so it could well be about time that some balance was swiftly coming. 

I of course turned on the TV, and soon thereafter, CNN said this was a false alert:

So, anyway, there are competing forces regarding peace on the Korean Peninsula.  However today some unexpected good news, for Kim Yo Jong, Jong Un's sister, expressed openness to peace talks with South Korea.  She said Moon Jae-in's overture was admirable.  Yo Jong will become 34 years old on Sunday, although our fed government thinks she is two years younger.  She spent four years in Switzerland and has a computer science degree from Kim Il-sung University, a school named after her grandfather.  That is where she met her husband and it is rumored they have a six-year old child.  There are hints that if something happens to Jong Un, she would replace him.

Let me repeat my mention of President Moon and BTS at the UN General Assembly earlier this week.  A truly boring speech by Moon at the beginning, following by something similar from BTS about world peace and such from around 7.5 minutes into this video, and their finale' song from the 14:35 mark.

What screwy and tedious posting.  I'll close with something a lot more entertaining from Russia:

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