North Korea

Brillant. Just brillant. Just as I poured through about 20 books/journal articles for my North Korea term paper/presentation in three weeks time, the news of a historic summit between the Presidents of South Korea and North Korea call for reunification but more importantly, the nuclear issue! My thesis statement was going to point out how China-US nexus is critical to North Korea giving up the nuclear weapons and the futility of the 6 party talks(with Japan complicating issues at the talk with its emphasis on kidnappings by North Koreans) and hurray, North Korea had agreed to a disarmament programme. Sighz,political scientist's life rocks....

Besides the slight irritation, I'm actually happy about this news.. though as a political scientist and a hardcore realist, I wonder whether it will prove to a false dawn. Oh well, NK did go back on his agreement in 1993, didn't they? And wasn't NK a rogue state as perceived by Bush?(Yes, i know, he's dumb) After reading so many articles, some as recent as april this year, and not many actually forsee this coming, I'm starting to be a bit sceptical about the analysis of political scientists....

If the North Korean issue can be solved peacefully, if reunification can occur without bloodshed, if nuclear weapons can be disarmed peacefully, I will start having faith in human race again and become a LIBERAL! Oh no, i can't do that, Myanmar issue happening at the moment, n let's not forget about the many crisis zones still mired in disasters, and this simply disgusting divide of resources between the haves and the have-nots.....

Realism, you cannot go wrong with it. Not fundamentally, anyway.

* I wish the human race will prove me wrong. I wish world peace is not just a bimbotic aspiration said by beauty pageants.