The nationally broadcasted speech by MB, after six days since the shelling, said nothing but “I’m sorry my fellow citizen and I hate you NK”. I really don’t see his strategy on how to prevent such tregedy in future.

Here I have some suggestions made by many U.S. experts, and MB should listen to these voices too.

• “Without direct negotiations, North Korea is likely to keep enriching uranium, restart its reactor at Yongbyon, conduct another nuclear test as it did in 2006, and test more missiles.” – Leon Sigal of the Social Science Research Council.

• “The only hope appears to be engagement. The United States and its partners should respond to the latest nuclear developments so as to encourage Pyongyang to finally pursue nuclear electricity in lieu of the bomb. That will require addressing North Korea’s underlying insecurity.” – Siegfried Hecker, former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory who recently toured the DPRK and saw its facility for purifying uranium

• “Being realistic about the North makes no moral judgment about its system or policies, nor does it cede anything in terms of our values or goals. U.S. policymakers need to go back to square one. A realistic place to start fresh may be quite simple: accepting the existence of North Korea as it is, a sovereign state with its own interests.” – Robert Carlin and John Lewis, Stanford professors who recently toured the DPRK and saw its facility for purifying uranium

• “Pyongyang has sent a consistent message that during direct talks with the United States, it is ready to conclude an agreement to end its nuclear programs, put them all under IAEA inspection and conclude a permanent peace treaty to replace the ‘temporary’ cease-fire of 1953.” – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter

• “… One item should be at the top of the agenda, however, in order to remove all unnecessary obstacles to progress, that is the establishment of a peace treaty to replace the truce that has been in place since 1953. One of the things that have bedeviled all talks until now is the unresolved status of the Korean War. A peace treaty would provide a baseline for relationships, eliminating the question of the other’s legitimacy and its right to exist.” – James Laney, former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea

Therefore…..
As tensions continue to mount, it is critical to urge Obama to stop the joint military maneuvers and not send additional U.S. warships and planes, including the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington. Instead, the United States should begin negotiations immediately and sign a Peace Agreement to end the state of war that has existed for sixty years since the Korean War.

I’m also personally hoping for MB to implement “Special Area for West Sea Peace Cooperation” around the NLL, agreed as a part of the 10.4 Joint Declaration(2007) by Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Jong-il. This proposal indicates areas of cooperation and development for joint peaceful usage such as joint fishery and economic zone, with the idea of promoting inter-Korea collaboration instead of continuously engaging in deadly military standoff in the area. Had this agreement been implemented by MB, the tregedy would have been prevented.

The special area should have been implemented with the following plan.

For more details on Special Area for West Sea Peace Cooperation, please see http://www.pressian.com/article/article.asp?article_num=40101127175342&section=05

eroica/님의 글의 한 줄 요약.

새로운 거 필요없다.
10.04 협정 준수하라.

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저도 가장 현실적이며, 실용적인 방안이며,
아니 거의 유일한 해결책이라고 생각합니다.

I appreciate your putting the succinct summary. Good night.