Johnwoon goes to Washington!
On the brink of war, both sides have turned the conversation into a hostage crisis from missile crisis,
by DPRK capturing U.S. citizens who weren't supposed to be there in the first place. Which kind of saved the world from going into a full fledge war.
There are two types of diplomacy. An official diplomatic relationship and the unofficial back channelled relationship. Japan and DPRK have for the longest time, established a long-term back channelling relationship through a significant number of North Koreans living in Japan for at least 3 generations. These people have contributed to the North's economy through local pachinko parlor businesses and so forth for more than 60 years which supported the regimes very existence… untill now. Japanese government, for the good cause, "Kept one eye closed" pretending as if this never existed.
Japan and the North may occasionally get into a shouting match, but they will not get physical, as long as these hard working North Korean descendants are here in Japan helping the regime.
Japan is deliberately feeding into the rhetoric of a world war class missile crisis in order to conflate it into article 9 referendum, orchestrated by non other than, prime minister Abe. Where as South Koreans are indulging in their presidential election and aren't too intimidated by the war crisis, because they know that there won't be one.
by DPRK capturing U.S. citizens who weren't supposed to be there in the first place. Which kind of saved the world from going into a full fledge war.
There are two types of diplomacy. An official diplomatic relationship and the unofficial back channelled relationship. Japan and DPRK have for the longest time, established a long-term back channelling relationship through a significant number of North Koreans living in Japan for at least 3 generations. These people have contributed to the North's economy through local pachinko parlor businesses and so forth for more than 60 years which supported the regimes very existence… untill now. Japanese government, for the good cause, "Kept one eye closed" pretending as if this never existed.
Japan and the North may occasionally get into a shouting match, but they will not get physical, as long as these hard working North Korean descendants are here in Japan helping the regime.
Japan is deliberately feeding into the rhetoric of a world war class missile crisis in order to conflate it into article 9 referendum, orchestrated by non other than, prime minister Abe. Where as South Koreans are indulging in their presidential election and aren't too intimidated by the war crisis, because they know that there won't be one.