U.S.-North Korea negotiations and 2nd Marshall Plan

The essence of capitalist ideology is human desire. It aims to satisfy human desires as much as possible in institutional or common-interest ways. It is a good act. Most of all, because desire is related to the desire to survive.

Despite former President Trump's unexpected and unusual political moves, I have seen a ray of light regarding North Korea. North Korea must have had President Kim Jong-un's desire to protect the regime and Chairman Kim Jong-il's desire to make North Korea a strong and powerful country. And the West must have had a desire to turn North Korea into a capitalist country and take political and economic benefits from it. In particular, I anticipated that President Trump would have an economic perspective rather than an ideological one because he had a businessman's philosophy. I thought that those desires would be combined to change North Korea's position. That was true at the time. We all had desires. Capitalist philosophy can refer to such desires as that. - Why I refer to 'us' is understood by negotiators, including US Secretary of State Pompeo and US Secretary of State Biegun, who participated in the US-North Korea negotiations at the time.

As the highest policymaking circles in Washington considered these questions, a document arrived from George Kennan, a Russian expert who was a relatively junior diplomat, arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The report provided a philosophical and conceptual framework for understanding Stalin's foreign policy. One of those rare embassy report that would by itself reshape Washington’s view of the world, it became known as "The Long Telegram." Kennan maintained that the United States. should stop blaming itself for the Soviet Union's intransigence; The sources of Soviet foreign policy lay deep within the Soviet system itself. In essence, Kennan argued that Soviet foreign policy was an amalgam of communist ideological zeal and old Russian tsarist expansionism.

 

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And without a second term, there was a revivalist and reactionary craze all over the world. President Trump failed to win a second term, President Putin returned to Stalin's expansionism at the time, and President Kim Jong-un realized that the wall of reform was too high. In fact, Korea is in a complex situation where ideological conflict creates ghosts that do not exist, so it will result in being rejected from US-North Korea negotiations. Please, in Korea, a president with a political philosophy must be elected. If the Korean president lacks a political philosophy, he is treated like a child. Practicalism can be used to describe political action without a political philosophy. It will be seen by the public and the world as an attempt to benefit from opportunities without a sense of duty under the pretext of pragmatism.

 

Let's reflect on the question of whether we can go back to those days. Russia is at war with Ukraine, North Korea and Russia are close, and President Trump and President Kim Jong-un are getting older. All of these factors are obstacles to US-North Korea negotiations. At this point, why don't we replace political philosophy with a moderate means to achieve each other's desires.

 

Let's put it in a bit of a rough, off-the-cuff language. If the Trump administration intends to open up Kim Jong-un's government and take advantage of the economy, it should develop North Korea. The situation will be the same as in the Marshall Plan, when the United States provided economic support to restore Europe to ruin after World War II.