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| Litos | Jan 8 2018, 10:28 AM Post #1 |
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Itō Hirobumi
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![]() RI YONG HO Minister of Foreign Affairs I thank their excellencies, Cho Tae-yul for agreeing to attend these preliminary talks for the restoration of harmonious and normal relations on the Korean peninsula. I am furthermore grateful to his excellency Liu Jieyi for providing the good offices required to facilitate these conversations. My government sincerely hopes that these discussions will lead to a permanent understanding between our governments concerning Korean affairs. The docket shared with your United Nations delegations involved several topics that we collectively wished to discuss, including:
And, later:
I believe it will be beneficial to divide the topics into the first two, which we can organize during this conference, while our two Presidents can handle the latter three topics which are more long-term and involve serious action. There are two action items which my government thinks will be easy for both of our governments to agree to off the bat, with the Six Party Talks business being more complicated. These two items are arranging a special visit of President Moon and Marshal Kim Yong-chol to each others' countries, and committing to remove one army group each from the border to re-deploy elsewhere in the country. One army group will not significantly harm defense, but will convince civilians to have faith and confidence in the negotiations nad buoy support for the Sunshine policy both in the North and the South. The more complicated business will be the Six Party talks. As shown by the last talk when the USA walked out before the Republic of Korea could even make an opening statement, we will need a joint proposal to keep the interest of certain parties who have no stake in or desire to see Korean unification. We believe that the shorter we can keep the talks, the more likely the foreign powers will accept it. Because of this and an increase in stability in our own government, we are now in a position to accept the previous Japanese proposal, which was the following:
If this would be agreeable to your government as well, we suggest that we open a new round of Six Party talks in a neutral mediator country and speed up proceedings by putting forward that proposal. We look forward to highly productive talks and would like to open the floor. |
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| iceviking | Jan 10 2018, 02:25 AM Post #2 |
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조태용 Cho Tae-yong Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. We thank Minister Ri for starting these talks. We hope we can this can be the start of something positive. Our door is always open. We believe that a fresh round of the Six Patry talks would be a good place to start. We believe that we could resume these talks in Geneva Switzerland later this month. A visit by both heads of governments would come after the resumption of talks. The South Korean government has given me the task of leading any future talks, as well as my capacity of Ambassador to the United Nations. Whilst we are concerned about future launches and illegal shipments to North Korea. We believe these should cease before talks start. I yield the floor. |
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| Litos | Jan 10 2018, 06:30 AM Post #3 |
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Itō Hirobumi
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![]() RI YONG HO Minister of Foreign Affairs This is a good idea and we hope invitations can be sent in due time. Would you also consider a neutral capital such as Berlin, Riyadh, or Beijing in the event that Switzerland refuses to host? We would wish to propose an alternative Seven Party talk involving the EU as well, where the agreement could be hosted in Paris, with the EU as a participant party. The DPRK has not done a missile test for over a year at the moment, and we have no issue with continuing that policy. As for illegal shipments, there is no evidence these shipments are continuing according to the United Nations sanctions control regime, as all nations which have submitted a sanctions compliance report on the DPRK state that they are rigorously enforcing sanctions. In any case, if said shipments are occuring - which has been alleged for decades - they would be the minimum required to keep the people of the DPRK fed and avert imminent war and collapse. To build popular faith in this process both in the North and South, would you agree to the movement of 1-2 divisions from both countries away from the DMZ? This does not represent a sizable contingent compared to the overall force strength of both countries, but would be an important symbolic move to persuade our publics. Finally, would President Moon be ready to conduct a tour of the North and invite Marshal Kim to tour the South once the Six Party Talks commence? It is important that our governments make clear that President Moon was instrumental in the creation of this policy to increase his support, and support for his party's Sunshine Policy. We are certain that even if Six Party Talks fail for some unforeseeable reason, in spite of the fact that we are now stable enough to accept the Western offer, that these symbolic measures will lay the groundwork for future negotiations and build the necessary good will. Edited by Litos, Jan 10 2018, 06:31 AM.
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| iceviking | Jan 10 2018, 08:39 AM Post #4 |
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조태용 Cho Tae-yong Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. We are willing to go to any neutral city. Paris, Berlin or London will be fine to us. As a sign of progress we will remove 2 divisions if North Korea does the same. I have personally spoken to President Moon and he will gladly visit the North and for Marshal Kim to visit the South. We hope that agreeing to these points we can commence fruitful talks. I yield the floor. |
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| Litos | Jan 10 2018, 02:05 PM Post #5 |
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Itō Hirobumi
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![]() RI YONG HO Minister of Foreign Affairs Excellent news, we fully agree to the movement of troops and will be carrying this out shortly. As for the visits, we intend to open secondary talks ((telepresence thread)) and visit various landmarks in both countries. In the South, we intend to visit Chung Ju yung memorial, teh HQs of several state of the art companies, tombs of Southern Presidents, the national assembly, and Seoul National University. In the North, we would suggest a visit to the historic city of Kaesong, ancient capital of Korea, and the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang. We propose that we begin continuation talks after the historic trip in the DMZ, if this would be acceptable. |
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| Rezim | Jan 16 2018, 10:13 PM Post #6 |
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His Majesty King Carol I
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![]() 조태용 | Cho Tae-yongPermanent Representative to the United Nations 대한민국 | Republic of Korea Minister Ri, President Moon has given the order to withdraw two divisions from our side of the Demilitarized Zone, and should see the divisions returning to their home garrisons in the coming weeks as they demobilize away from the DMZ. The chosen sites are acceptable to President Moon & the State Council. We will forego the aforementioned weapons shipments at this time in the spirit of cooperation so that high-level talks between our two governments can carry on. |
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| Litos | Jan 18 2018, 05:45 PM Post #7 |
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Itō Hirobumi
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![]() RI YONG HO Minister of Foreign Affairs This is excellent news and we thank you for your greture in tandem to ours. Soon we hope to see the Korean peoples once again unified in spirit and mind for the defense of our peninsula and our motherland. We will extend formal diplomatic requests to China to host a new round of Six Party Talks, if your government is amenable to hosting them in Beijing. Would your foreign ministry be amenable to putting together the travel plans for the visits of our heads of government? This should allow you to avoid bowing before certain statues which it would not be politically acceptable among some Southern constituents for a President to bow before, if you understand our meaning. |
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