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The most important North Korea policy facing the next administration will be to prepare for an unexpected collapse of the North Korean regime, a seminar heard Thursday. Prof. Lee Dong-bok of Myongji University, at the seminar hosted jointly by the Korea Security Forum, the Council On Korea-U.S. Security Studies and the New Right Union, said Seoul should consider a one-country-two-systems formula as a transitional policy to cope with a sudden change.
"There are two possibilities about which we should be concerned in case North Korea collapses on its own in the wake of a sudden change there,”± Lee told the Symposium on National Security and the Restoration of National Identity. ”°The first possibility would be of a large group of South Korean investors rushing to North Korea to make a quick profit, just as carpetbaggers rushed from the North to the South after the Civil War in the U.S. The other possibility would be of North Korean residents, who are unfamiliar with the market economy, failing to adapt to a unified nation in the way Germany experienced right after unification.”± He said research on a one-nation-two-systems formula will be ”°absolutely necessary”± as a transitional policy to make preparations for such an eventuality.
Former Kyonggi University professor Ryoo Jae-gap said to reach agreement on declaring the end of the Korean War at the upcoming inter-Korean summit, ”°we should call the North to account for the invasion of the South in the Korean War, seek damages for the casualties and national destruction during the war, and urge it to make an official apology and promise not to provoke a war again." Ryoo said if the two Koreas are to agree a peace treaty, North Korea must verifiably dismantle its stockpiles of nuclear weapons and current nuclear weapons programs ? disablement alone is not enough. It must also dismantle short, medium and long-range missiles, and biochemical weapons, he added.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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