What North Korea’s leader seeks from the international community is appeasement and not peace, let alone the freedom of his own people, a North Korean escapee says.
“True peace will have to come alongside freedom of faith, belief, expression, speech for North Korean people,” said the former citizen of North Korea, who suffered torture at the hands of the regime of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un before escaping. He now lives in the United Kingdom, and contributes to a blog for the Christian charity Open Doors under the name John Choi.
“The peace process has to prioritise the well-being of all 80 million Korean inhabitants,” Choi told World Watch Monitor, “with protecting the rights of people in North Korea as it must come alongside real freedom and human rights”.
It is not the kind of peace, however, that interests Kim, Choi said. North Korea’s leader is not intending to release his control over the country but wants to model it after Vietnam, a communist country with a socialist economy.
“He needs foreign investment so he offers appeasement”, Choi said. Kim has put on a charm offensive to the world since January, he said, and the world has fallen for it, “making them think he is seeking real peace”.
On 9 May U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Kim had released three Americans of Korean descent, who had been held prisoner…
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