"President Donald J. Trump of the United States of
America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea have committed to cooperate for the
development of new US-DPRK relations and for the promotion of peace,
prosperity, and the security of the Korean Peninsula and of the world."
"The US president said he had invited Mr Kim to visit the White House at “the appropriate time” and that the North Korean leader had accepted his invitation."
Poor North Korea but with a medium size population of 25
M people (S.Korea has about 51 M), it is safe to project that after denuclearization, soon Samsung and
Apple, Ford and Toyota, BMW and Hyundai, HSBC and Citibank, Marriott and
Shangri-la, San miguel and Jolibee, other big globa and regionall
brands will soon be setting offices and factories, hotels and banks, in
Pyongyang and beyond.
Singapore as host is a good model for NK -- small in both land area and population, previously very poor, no
nukes, yet very prosperous and rich.
Trump as long-time businessman and recent politician with
little political baggage that many politicians have may have inspired KJU to
have more businesses, more trade and investments and less missiles and bombs in
his country. The 8 years of "hope and change" leader has no track
record of real business. The Clinton couple has politics as business, no real
business selling useful goods and services.
US Ambassador to the PH Sung Kim has been with the Trump team in
negotiating with KJU. Amb. Kim with US State Sec. Mike Pompeo in SG. Cool guys.
(photo from Sec Pompeo's twitter)
I have a S. Korean free marketer friend, Dr. Chung-ho
Kim, then Pres. of the Center for Free Enterprise (CFE) in Seoul. We were in an
Atlas event in Washington DC in Nov. 2009, 20th anniv of the fall of the Berlin
Wall (thanks to the invite and travel grant secured by Jo Kwong, then Atlas VP). Chung-ho was one of the freedom speakers. In front of about 300
people he made a toast, "Unlike in Berlin where they have a wall, in Korea
we have a fence separating the N and S. Korea. As Pres. of the Center for Free
Enterprise in Seoul, I call on Chairman Kim (il Song) -- tear down this
fence." Big applause from the crowd.
"I want to bring our soldiers back home. We have,
right now, 32,000 soldiers in South Korea, and I’d like to be able to bring
them back home. But that’s not part of the equation right now. At some point, I
hope it will be, but not right now.
We will be stopping the war games, which will save us a
tremendous amount of money, unless and until we see the future negotiation is
not going along like it should. But we’ll be saving a tremendous amount of
money. Plus, I think it’s very provocative."
So he wants to pull out his Troops out of S.
Korea, mainly to (1) save money, cut US spending, and (2) in line with zero
nuke for NKor, zero US troops in SKor.
Good plan then. I think Trump plans to have another round of tax cut so he needs more spending cut.
CN influence over NKor will significantly decline. Soon
N. Koreans will fall in love with McDonald's and Starbucks, google and youtube,
Apple and Samsung, Toyota and Hyundai, Toshiba and LG.
See also:
EFN Asia 24: Jim Rogers talk at Jeju Forum, June 10, 2013
Korea Unification Soon? October 10, 2014
The Korea Summit, moving to world peace, April 30, 2018
BWorld 219, The US-North Korea summit and the global economy, June 20, 1028
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