Monday, October 30, 2006

Forgeetaaaboutit - Treat North Korea Like Haiti

Hong Kong: Forget about the stalled six party talks to end North Koreas nuclear program. Forget about sanctions. Forget about bipartisan recriminations before the November U.S. midterm elections. Forget about the blame game ─ especially picking on China and Russia. Forget about a nuclear East Asia.

The universal opposition and condemnation of the October 9th North Korean detonation necessitates an urgent alternative solution to the re-hashed and recycled proposals that have been tossed around since the 1953 Korean ceasefire went into effect ─ one that delays, or preferably avoids a nuclear armed East Asia ─ and Armageddon.

China and Russia, who like America opposed the test, have been humiliated and desperately want a solution they can jointly embrace with America. The self styled Dear Leader’s nuclear bluff has to be called ─ Haitian style.

America, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea must initiate five party talks without pre-conditions or sanctions that only hurt and subject the majority of North Koreans to more misery and suffering because of their self centered sycophant authoritarian military leadership.

The Five Party talks should explore how to best find an honorable face saving exit for Kim Jong-il and Co. ─ a la the numerous Haitian dictators that are living in the exiled lifestyle the self styled Dear Leader enjoys at the expense of his people and the world.

This is a negotiating tactic America has perfected with several Haitian dictators over the years. A policy that China, Russia, Japan and South Korea can piggy back on and benefit along with the rest of the region and the world.

North Korea, unlike Haiti, borders economic powers China, Russia, South Korea ─ and Japan across the Sea of Japan. These four economic super powers can set up Co-Operative Cross Border Economic Zones on their mutual borders, the kind Kim Jong-il visited and admired in China, and is helplessly trying to emulate.

These Economic Zones will transform the central planned Stalinist communist economy into neutral economic buffer zones in the potentially explosive area and stop the accelerating destabilizing effect throughout the region and beyond. It is the only feasible way to bring stability to East Asia.

The progress and direction of the Five Party talks will be amplified to the Dear Leader at bilateral talks between America and North Korea ─ the face saving concession Kim Jong-il has been trying to extract from America since the Six Party talks collapsed.

It is in the world’s long-term strategic interest to neutralize North Korea’s nuclear capability, create a North-South confederation and eventually a unified Korea with prosperous co-operative economic zones with its neighbors.

Economic prosperity will prevent the refugee exodus and crisis that China and Russia are concerned about, especially if American and European corporate citizens embrace the Economic Zones the same way they did in China. This will allow North Korea to finally sign a peace agreement that allows it to be gradually re-united with the South and the cost of re-unification, unlike Germany, is shared by the five parties looking out for what’s best for all humanity.

The proposed Five Party talks will transform the opaque isolated hermit state and its crippled economy to a transparent vital sunlit renaissance model for basket cases like Zimbabwe and other failed states.

Everyone wins. Granted the perks to be given Kim Jong-il, his family and military supporters will be the most difficult negotiating points. No one is more experienced in this type of negotiations than America after its Haiti and Philippines experience.

What is the alternative? More sanctions and political rhetoric that leads to Armageddon? Forgeetaaaboutit.

Peter G. de Krassel is the author of Custom Maid Spin and Custom Maid War

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