Morning Jolt: An Extraordinarily Hopeful Handshake Between the Two Koreas

Peace in our time on the Korean peninsula? Let's not get too optimistic; if any regime ever justified the mentality of "trust but verify," it's the North Koreans. But we're light-years away from the sudden missile launches and nuclear tests of just a few months ago.

The leaders of North and South Korea agreed on Friday to work to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and, within the year, pursue talks with the United States to declare an official end to the Korean War, which ravaged the two nations from 1950 to 1953.

At a historic summit meeting, the first time a North Korean leader had ever set foot in the South, the leaders vowed to negotiate a peace treaty to replace a truce that has kept an uneasy peace on the divided Korean Peninsula for more than six decades, while ridding it of nuclear weapons. A peace treaty has been one of the incentives North Korea has demanded in return for bargaining away its ...

April 27 2018

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An Extraordinarily Hopeful Handshake Between the Two Koreas Jim Geraghty Peace in our time on the Korean peninsula? Let's not get too optimistic; if any regime ever justified the mentality of "trust but verify," it's the North Koreans. But we're light-years away from the sudden missile launches and nuclear tests of just a few months ago. The leaders of North and South Korea agreed on Friday to work to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and, within the year, pursue talks with the United States to declare an official end to the Korean War, which ravaged the two nations from 1950 to 1953. At a historic summit meeting, the first time a North Korean leader had ever set foot in the South, the leaders vowed to negotiate a peace treaty to replace a truce that has kept an uneasy peace on the divided Korean Peninsula for more than six decades, while ridding it of nuclear weapons. A peace treaty has been one of the incentives North Korea has demanded in return for bargaining away its ... Read More Top Stories Trump's Saudi Policy Gamble Michael Barone The new partnership has risks, but it's safer than Obama's ill-advised tilt toward... What Republicans' Food-Stamp Bill and Democrats' Job-Guarantee Plan Have in Common Robert VerBruggen What Republicans' Food-Stamp Bill and Democrats' Job-Guarantee Plan Have in Common ADVERTISEMENT Judges for the #Resistance Rich Lowry Here is an unelected branch of government overstepping its constitutional bounds to frustrate a core priority of the... Don't Fear Moscow. Marginalize It. Marc C. Johnson Calling Putin's bluff will reveal that he doesn't have much of a hand to... China's Xi Jinping, Master Illusionist Therese Shaheen He strives to keep the world focused on the illusion of strength. The U.S. must recognize the reality: Chinese... Democrats' Jobs Guarantee: Bernie Sanders Is Mainstream Now Theodore Kupfer Progressive senators are rushing to align themselves with an idea everyone knows is bad... ADVERTISEMENT What NR is Reading On Grand Strategy John Lewis Gaddis "The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader." — John Nagl, author of Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice, Wall Street Journal LEARN MORE Photo Essays Cartoons of the Day: April 27, 2018 Avengers: Infinity War Premiere ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.