Making it stick: Why Moon's push to ratify Panmunjom Declaration may still fail



Analysis Making it stick: Why Moon’s push to ratify Panmunjom Declaration may still fail South Korea's president hopes parliamentary control will help cement his legacy, but Kim Jong Un may not care either way Jeongmin Kim May 21, 2021 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON Inter-Korean Summit Press Corps \| Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in signing the Panmunjom Declaration, April 2018 On the day South Korean President Moon Jae-in departed for his first summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, progressive lawmakers and high-level Moon administration officials in Seoul were busy with a seemingly outdated agenda: ratifying the 2018 Panmunjom Declaration Moon signed with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The leaders of the two Koreas signed the agreement at their historic meeting in April 2018 at the truce village of Panmunjom at the inter-Korean border. The document promised to end the Korean War, work towards the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and end all “hostile” activities against each other Read More © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. LATEST ANALYSIS 01How China could benefit from North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine 02New North Korean ICBM delivers big political message, and likely bigger payloads 03How North Korea-Russia ties will challenge next US president, no matter who wins 04What to make of the stunning collapse in value of North Korean won 05What to know about Kim Yong Bok, the man leading North Korean troops in Russia 06If Trump: How erratic leader’s reelection could scramble North Korea policy 07North Korea’s admission of drone incursion exposes glaring gaps in air defenses 08The war in Ukraine is transforming how Europe perceives North Korean threats

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Making it stick: Why Moon’s push to ratify Panmunjom Declaration may still fail

South Korea's president hopes parliamentary control will help cement his legacy, but Kim Jong Un may not care either way

Jeongmin Kim May 21, 2021

Making it stick: Why Moon’s push to ratify Panmunjom Declaration may still fail

Inter-Korean Summit Press Corps | Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in signing the Panmunjom Declaration, April 2018

On the day South Korean President Moon Jae-in departed for his first summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, progressive lawmakers and high-level Moon administration officials in Seoul were busy with a seemingly outdated agenda: ratifying the 2018 Panmunjom Declaration Moon signed with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The leaders of the two Koreas signed the agreement at their historic meeting in April 2018 at the truce village of Panmunjom at the inter-Korean border. The document promised to end the Korean War, work towards the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and end all “hostile” activities against each other

01How China could benefit from North Korea’s troop deployment to Ukraine
02New North Korean ICBM delivers big political message, and likely bigger payloads
03How North Korea-Russia ties will challenge next US president, no matter who wins
04What to make of the stunning collapse in value of North Korean won
05What to know about Kim Yong Bok, the man leading North Korean troops in Russia
06If Trump: How erratic leader’s reelection could scramble North Korea policy
07North Korea’s admission of drone incursion exposes glaring gaps in air defenses
08The war in Ukraine is transforming how Europe perceives North Korean threats

Making it stick: Why Moon’s push to ratify Panmunjom Declaration may still fail

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