Those are your headlines more news continuing here on aljazeera of the inside story. The hotline linking north and south korea is in use again phil young wants to talk about next months Winter Olympics but so also wants to discuss its Nuclear Program when next weeks meeting east and sions will make things well this is inside story. Around welcome to the program. North koreas leader kim jong un started of two thousand and eighteen by extending an olive branch to the countrys southern neighbor and now kims new years day address has led to a planned talks between the long time rivals delegations from the two nations will meet on choose day for the first face to face talks in two years during the vast time north korea has conducted three Nuclear Tests and fired more than forty messiahs including its most advanced yet but even as it calls for you do stand sions junk young insists it wont get rid of its Nuclear Program so how much can choose days talks really achieve well get to our guests i
Of the relationship between the two countries and the involvement in the night states the involvement of the United States. This is just under 20 minutes. David is a historian at university of wisconsin madison who specializes in a timely field, u. S. Korea relations. What is the most important thing that anyone who is watching the news right now worrying about the state of things should know about korea and north korea . The most important thing to understand is that the division of korea was originally a u. S. Idea. This was never supposed to be permanent. Korea would eventually unify. That did not happen. The division became permanent. Much,ason this matters so the koreans see themselves as one people, one nation, one race, and would like to be reunified. Especially South Koreans who have family in the north. Koreans hold the United States responsible for that decision. There is a latent strain of running through Korean Society that doesnt always manifest itself but could manifest i
An interview on u. S. Korea relations with an historian from the university of wisconsin, madison. We recorded this yesterday at the American Historical Association meeting. David is a historian that specializes in a very timely field, u. S. Korea relations. What is the most important thing that anyone who was watching the news right now worrying about the state of things should know about korea and u. S. Korea relations . The most important thing to understand is that the division of korea was originally a jewish idea. This division originally a u. S. Idea. This would originally create a unified state. This eventually became permanent. The reason that this matters so much. The koreans very much see themselves as one people, one race, and would very much like to be reunified, especially the older generation of koreans that have family in north, some of whom who have not spoken in decades. This matters because in many ways, koreans hold the United States responsible for that decision. T
A u. S. Idea. This idea was never supposed to be permanent. The division became permanent, and it is no doubt whose idea it was originally. The reason this matters so much as the koreans have never seen , oneelves as one people race. They would very much like to be reunified. This matters because in many ways, koreans hold the u. S. Responsible for that decision. There is a latent stream of antiamericanism running through Korean Society that does not always manifest itself. The perplexing thing about them seeing themselves as one nation, is they have two very different governing systems. How is that rectified . If you look at the situation and deprivation of people have an north korea versus the south, how does that all fit . It all fits by looking backwards. The korea fund takei the koreans like to claim that they have 7000 years of history. But is simply not true, they do have a very long history as one united people. Has been a fairly recent development in the last 50 years. They lo
The koreans see themselves as one people and would very much like to be reunified, especially the older generation of koreans slept family in the north, some of whom have not spoke in decades. It matters because in many ways koreans hold the United States responsible for the decision. There is a latent stream of antiamericanism running through Korean Society that could manifest itself in a strong way under the right circumstances. Seeing themselves as one people, they have two very different governing systems. How will that rectify itself . In their minds. If you look at the situation and the deprivation, how does that fit . It fits by looking backwards rather than looking at the present. Takei the koreans like to claim that they have 7000 years of history. But is simply not true, they do have a very long history as one united people. Has been a fairly recent development in the last 50 years. They look at the very long path they have had together as proof that in the future, we can reu