War: the Koreas - Peace? : Peace Treaty in works after 52 years? North Korea, South Korea, USA, China - Canucks fawt there too!

I found it on The Christian Science Monitor email newsletter, and clicked up the newsdaily's webpage for the story in the "World > Terrorism & Security" section for today, a news story by Arthur Bright, csmonitor.com. August 9, 2005.

A formal end to the Korean War?

Report: US, China, and both Koreas agree to launch talks for a peace treaty to replace 52-year cease-fire.

North Korea renewed its call for an official end to the half-century-old Korean War Tuesday. The communist regime has recently stepped up efforts to argue that a formal peace treaty — rather than the longstanding cease-fire — would give momentum to the stalled six-party nuclear talks and go a long way toward convincing them to scrap their nuclear program. North Korea may be a step closer to that goal, according to a Korea Times report.

The Korea Times reported Monday that both Koreas, along with China and the US, will soon begin discussions to formalize peace.

The four nations, which participated in the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear programs with Japan and Russia in the past weeks, agreed to launch a separate four-way forum to discuss the matter, an official involved in the talks said on condition of anonymity. ...

Experts say the replacement of the 52-year-long cease-fire would mean a springboard for not only an eternal peace on the peninsula but also a normalized relationship between North Korea and the US.

I'm a hardliner on North Korea and Communist China, these are both brutal repressive régimes that keep up a vivid smoke screen of "Human Rights" while being among the world's chief violators. Slave labour exists extensively in both countries. And the persecution of religions that don't register with the State is cruel and brutal, while these non-puppet unregistered communities of faith grow by leaps and bounds. A peace treaty should not end up with a clause whereby the US and South Korea agree not oppose with all effective means these monstrous conditions of the Communists' making in their own countries. Further, no clause in a peace treaty should compromise the right of either government to recognize the Chinese Republic of Taiwan. The US's adherence to the "One China" is both obsolete and self-contradicatory with its companion phrase "Two Countries." There are: Two Chinas, Two Countries. Recognize the Chinese Republic of Taiwan now! - Politicarp