Korean ‘peace’ must include nuclear disarmament

By Washington Examiner

Published April 30, 2018 4:00am ET

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Korean ‘peace’ must include nuclear disarmament — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a photo inside the Peace House at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone Friday, April 27, 2018. Their discussions will be expected to focus on whether the North can be persuaded to give up its nuclear bombs. | (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP)

As we welcome Kim Jong Un’s apparent amenability toward peace, we must remember that peace is not merely some happy concept or a promise. Peace is not handshakes or smiles.

Nor is it a process. As the Arab-Israeli conflict has shown, a peace process often does nothing to advance actual peace, and can be a cover for unremitting belligerence.

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