Bi-Partisan Tripe
Why is it that political parties everywhere the same in supporting popular “moderate” solutions that eventually achieve nothing?
A new set of North Korea policy initiatives announced by leaders of the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) are raising questions of feasibility and face strong opposition from the conservative right, both inside and outside the party.
In a meeting on July 4, the conservative-leaning GNP mapped out a set of North Korean policy initiatives, dubbed the ‘‘Peace Vision for the Korean Peninsula.’’ These new initiatives are based on a principle of ‘‘flexible reciprocity,’’ and imply that the party has softened its long-held hawkish attitude toward North Korea.
Under the new policy initiatives, the GNP said it would support an inter-Korean summit if the North were to become denuclearized. Were that to happen, the GNP said it would push for projects leading to greater inter-Korean economic cooperation, including keeping projects at Mount Geumgang and Gaeseong Industrial Complex afloat. What’s more, the conservative party said it would support a possibility of a declaration to end the war on the Korean peninsula, which would involve the two Koreas, the United States and China.
If I were a politician, I would start ignoring what people want and start listening what they don’t want. People’s wants are costly and its never what they actually want (do Koreans really want a tourist destination in North Korea?). What they don’t want (i.e. artillery shells falling upon them) is more feasible. For instance, here’s what I don’t want
- no nukes
- no KJI regime
- no Chinese repatriation policy
Just so happens South Koreans want peace, and they ended up with a place to get goods made cheap by Koreans. At least when I get what I do not want, it will be those things listed.
