Korean Summit - War and Peace
By Shiva
@Shiva49 (26189)
Singapore
April 28, 2018 9:14pm CST
What was thought to be impossible has happened in the Korean peninsula.
This was what everyone wanted - peace and coexistence.
I quote from the TIME:
“After the two leaders exchanged pleasantries, Kim stepped over the border, becoming the first North Korean leader to do so.
The following is the full exchange:
Chairman Kim Jong Un: I’m glad to meet you. I’m so glad.
President Moon Jae-in: Was there any difficulty coming here?
Kim: Not at all.
Moon: It’s a pleasure to meet you.
Kim: Indeed, I’m so filled with excitement because of the meeting at this historic site. And I was moved that you have come all the way to receive me at the Military Demarcation Line at Panmunjom.
Moon: It was your bold and courageous decision that has allowed us to come this far.
Kim: No, no, not at all.
Moon: We have made a historic moment.
Kim: I am pleased to meet you.
Moon: Would you please stand to this side?
Kim Jong Un then stepped across the demarcation line, where the leaders shook hands and posed for photographers. In an unscripted moment, Kim invited Moon to stand in North Korea. Moon obliged, becoming the first South Korean leader to cross the boundary into the North since then-President Roh Moo-hyun met with Kim Jong Il in 2007.
Moon: You have come to the south side, when will I be able to come to the North?
Kim: Maybe this is the right time for you to enter the North Korean territory.”
They are brothers and sisters and of the same ancestry.
Who kept them apart – obviously, the 1% who manipulate the rest to further their greed.
It is time to step out of the insanity of wars. For that, we should stop buying weapons of destruction. Stop this international trade against humanity first.
It is a victory for humanity and common sense; let no one take credit.
Where there's a will there's a way.
Image: Korean Summit from Wikimedia Commons
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@Shiva49 (26189)
• Singapore
30 Apr 18
@JudyEv Maybe the bad things could be due to the disappearance of the iron rice bowl!
Then again, when I look at the disarray in certain democracies and the resultant anarchy, I think a period of an iron-fisted rule could give them a reality check! siva
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
29 Apr 18
I have written a post on this
I am hoping for India and Pakistan to make peace.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
29 Apr 18
I am pleased to see this advance in relations between the two countries. So after all the rhetoric from Donald Trump we may be seeing an end to the separation of families and the isolation of North Korea. I do hope that it brings peace and a much better standard of life and less suffering for the people of North Korea.
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@Shiva49 (26189)
• Singapore
30 Apr 18
Thanks, I too hope they will be like how East and West Germany are like today eventually, one country.
After all, they are cut from the same cloth.
I think we should address the issue of some having nuclear weapons to dominate others.
North Korea said they do not want to be under a nuclear blackmail to give up their nuclear arms pursuit and that is a legitimate concern I believe as some cannot get away with having them and even threaten to use them to subjugate those denied - siva
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@Freelanzer (10745)
• Canada
30 Apr 18
I won't celebrate just yet. N Korea still has nuclear weapons and they are not giving them up. It would be interesting to see if they could ever exist as one nation but time will tell.
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@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
29 Apr 18
Yes I watched it on news on our local TV channel.. I am happy about it..
I agree with you, if there's a will , there's a way.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
3 May 18
It's funny how things work. Just when we see a good sign in Korea, along comes the situation between Israel and Iran. Then, there's the situation in Syria. It will be interesting to see how the future goes.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
4 May 18
@Shiva49 Sort of like the saying that one bad apple can spoil the basket and many people are easily influenced by a bad charismatic person (a bad apple).
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@Shiva49 (26189)
• Singapore
5 May 18
@1hopefulman That is the real danger and the reality.
It is tougher for one good person to influence many people than for one bad person to cast his spell on many - siva
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
5 May 18
I think the South Koreans are quite naive to trust the dictator from the north, if the past is any indication, many lies will be told and not much good will come of it.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
6 May 18
@Shiva49 Yes but the North Koreans have played this game before and they are looking to have some sanctions removed and then they will break their promises. I want to believe peace is possible but I think it is unlikely. Leopards don't change their spots.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48890)
• United States
8 May 18
I truly hope that this is the beginning of peace.
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@innertalks (20994)
• Australia
30 Apr 18
I often wonder if there is a spiritual reason for wars, given that there was even a war in heaven once. Perhaps they can't ever totally be prevented then.
Love lives in all, but when they do not live within its parameters, which includes God as the one in the all, they want to be the one too, and so by so doing, they cut themselves off from love. They lose their feet, or their way then, by placing their hands on their own chests to beat it.
War can never be totally prevented because God is one, but he allows the many in the one to live via him from his love in them, or from themselves and non-love disconnected from him for a time, until they finally see the wisdom of staying with him, which he wants them to gain the understanding to see themselves, not from it being force-fed into them by himself.
God wants to grow flowers of us, but he must prune us first by keeping us in good soil, but we place ourselves in poor soil, and so then we do not grow enough to be pruned, but remain wizened up, cut off from the source of all, which is the good soil of his love, not the poorer soil of our own manure, to put it at its worst personification of this breakaway from God and his love.
Wanting manure, instead of love, is what makes for war.
In other words, you cannot see the wood for the trees then, so to speak.
Photo Credit:
The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com.
Even the Devil must still have some good in him somewhere, after-all it was God who made him from his own love, and placed this love within him too.
@innertalks (20994)
• Australia
30 Apr 18
@Shiva49 Very well said siva.
I hope we wisen up to ourselves again soon, and all re-embrace love, once more again, by removing the boundaries, and seeing the oneness in us all.
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@Shiva49 (26189)
• Singapore
30 Apr 18
When love prevails there is no war, but we stray from the path of love due to our selfishness and stupidity.
We have been given this most livable of all planets to even become the lord of all we survey, but we have drawn artificial boundaries with the "us and them" attitude. We see differences where there is the all-pervasive oneness of creation. Then strife and wars result.
Instead of coexistence, our leaders try to lord over others and rub it in that some are more privileged like only few can have nuclear weapons. It is then a legitimate grouse for those who do not have such arsenal to feel intimidated and belittled.
So we are mired in the poorer soil of our own manure, and sort of left to wallow in the misery that is self-created - siva
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