In his speech on 23 June, Mr. Onaga Takeshi, the Governor of Okinawa Prefecture, said that the ongoing construction of a huge air force base for the US at Henoko, Okinawa, will not serve any peaceful purpose and goes against the present stream of things we are watching in East Asia. He further said that in the coming years Okinawa should play the role of a bridge between Japan and Asia. What then are the present streams of things flowing?
First of all, it is a great possibility that as the result of the two summits, one between President Moon and Chairman Kim on 27 April, the other President Trump and Chairman Kim on 12 June, the ceasefire, yes, only a ceasefire, which has been the legal framework covering the whole of the Korean Peninsula for the past 65 years ever since 1953, may change into a peace treaty.
Indeed the Korean War which was started in 1950, no matter who did it, was a decisive factor in making the Cold War a permanent phenomenon in not only the East Asia but almost the whole world. Take Japan, for instance, which seems to be outside the involvement of the war. The conclusion of the Peace Treaty of 1951, and the simultaneously of the Security Treaty, would not have been possible without the war. And those Treaties themselves became an important factor in conditioning the situation in the Far East. We will look at it tomorrow.
First of all, it is a great possibility that as the result of the two summits, one between President Moon and Chairman Kim on 27 April, the other President Trump and Chairman Kim on 12 June, the ceasefire, yes, only a ceasefire, which has been the legal framework covering the whole of the Korean Peninsula for the past 65 years ever since 1953, may change into a peace treaty.
Indeed the Korean War which was started in 1950, no matter who did it, was a decisive factor in making the Cold War a permanent phenomenon in not only the East Asia but almost the whole world. Take Japan, for instance, which seems to be outside the involvement of the war. The conclusion of the Peace Treaty of 1951, and the simultaneously of the Security Treaty, would not have been possible without the war. And those Treaties themselves became an important factor in conditioning the situation in the Far East. We will look at it tomorrow.
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