Washington’s insistence that denuclearization be a precondition to further negotiations puts the D.P.R.K. in the position of accepting military vulnerability with no guarantee of successful talks.

disarmament and permanent military occupation

Korean Armistice Agreement

In the absence of a peace treaty, an unresolved state of war persists.

incomplete conquest sustained by the U.S.’ geopolitical investment in the ongoing state of division, war, and occupation

U.S. military frequently ordered soldiers to shoot internal refugees, leading to hundreds of massacres.

By 1953, 5 million people were dead, more than half of them civilians