A joke about the "Olympics in Pyongyang"

On the eve of winter games, South Korea dutifully accepts all the conditions that Kim Jong -un put forward to her: why?

In Seoul and Tokyo, now in a large speed, not too funny joke that has just been born: “Winter Olympiad this year will definitely be in Pyeongchang? No, it seems that she will actually be in Pyongyang! ”

After these words, it is supposed to giggle sadly about how cleverly young DPRK leader Kim Jong -unwit around the finger of President South Korea Moon Jae In, who dreams that the winter games in February go without a bitch and a bitch. And most importantly, without the slightest threat of a conflict with a quick -tempered communist north.

The rich and proud Seoul, as some, it seems, is now dutifully accepting all the conditions that Pyongyang puts forward to him. At the very beginning of January, Kim Jong -un, unexpectedly declared the desire to send the team to the Olympics - and South Korea agreed on negotiations with lightning speed, although before that there were no direct contacts between the two countries. The sanction for the participation of Pyongyansky athletes in the games was written instantly - already on January 25, 12 strong North Korean girls in the down jackets of the Ban DPRK were brought south by buses. They will pour into the general team of the north and south in female hockey, although there is no longer the time to play. A few more North Korean athletes, including skaters, who say, have a chance, are also expected. At the opening of the Olympics, athletes from both parts of Korea will walk in the general team under the so -called The “flag of the association” with the outlines of the Korean Peninsula.

A few days ago, the Seoul press in crazy excitement fixed every step of the beauty who arrived from the north in an elegant coat with a collar from Chernobrovka-the head of the musical and dance ensemble Moranbon, which consists of charming girls in short skirts. The team was formed at the personal instructions of Kim Jong -un, the highest nomenclature has fun at its several frivolous concerts. Now the girls from Moranbon will perform during the Olympics in order to clearly show compatriots in the south and the whole world - in the DPRK everything is not so gloomy, do not believe imperialist propaganda.

Seoul also agreed to joint ski training in the North Korean mountain resort “Pass Masik”, just built by order of Kim Jong -un. Cultural events at the suggestion of Pyongyan are planned for the holy for all Koreans the picturesque ridge of Kimansan ("Diamond Mountains") in the DPRK. In the distant years of previous warming of relations to the hotels located there, South Korean tourists were eagerly traveling - until the North Korean guard was shot by one tourist for invasion of the forbidden zone. Now, it seems, Pyongyang hopes for the resumption of the flow of visitors who can give him currency, so precious in the conditions of suffocating sanctions from the UN Security Council.

The readiness of President Moon Jae in easily responds to the wishes of the DPRK causes little enthusiasm in South Korea - the once high popularity of the head of state, according to polls, began to fall.

Particular indignation caused the hasty inclusion of North Korean girls in the South Korean team in women's hockey without the consent of her coach and the athletes themselves. Such a decision, as evidenced by sociologists, condemned 73% of South Korea citizens.

President Moon Jae in his views is a left nationalist, he believes in reconciliation with the north on a patriotic basis and, even before his election, advocated the policy of “solar heat” against the DPRK. But the point is not only the ideals - Seoul perfectly sees that Pyongyang was extremely difficult: the implementation of the United Nations Security Council with a ban on buying almost all the goods of the North Korean exports and the fierce restrictions on oil and oil products to the DPRK threaten Kim Jong -un of the collapse. An important role is played by the new tonality of threats from the United States: Washington openly talk about the possibility of a military solution to the “North Korean problem”. For example, impact on missile bases and a nuclear landfill in the DPRK. Some experts do not exclude that Pyongyang will swallow such humiliation - an attempt to resist will mean the destruction of North Korea, although South will get a lot.

President Moon wants to continue the game of reconciliation with the DPRK and after the Olympics, hoping that the active continuation of the dialogue will not allow the Americans to fulfill their threats. We are talking about the beginning of consultations of the North and South on Security issues. Then, according to informed sources, Seoul may try to organize tripartite negotiations with the involvement of the United States in order to reach a concrete discussion of the issue of the DPRK missile and nuclear program and with the possibility of dismantling it in exchange for solid “gingerbread” from Washington and the entire Western world.

Such maneuvers cause extreme wariness in Washington and Tokyo - there they are afraid that the leadership of South Korea will play and weaken the united front of merciless pressure to Kim Jong -un.

In particular, in an suspended state were the annual large-scale American-Yuzhno-Korean military maneuvers, which are held in the spring-in the DPRK they consider them the development of invasion. During the Olympics, Washington agreed to postpone the teachings. However, the head of the Pacific military command of the United States, Admiral Harry Harris, openly stated that after the end of the games, the maneuvers would be immediately held on a normal scale. This will inevitably cause Pyongyang's rage and can lead to the cessation of his dialogue with Seoul.

Therefore, in South Korea they were already slowly talking about the need to reduce the scale of the exercises. To clarify the situation, the meeting of Ministers of Defense of the United States and South Korea in Hawaii should be clarified for the coming days. And the vice-president Michael Pence, who is heading to Pyeongchang, as a representative of the United States, would like to hold a tripartite meeting with President Moon Jaeu and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will also arrive at the opening of games. On it, the head of South Korea will undoubtedly and persistently ask to stop the games in the "sunny heat" with Pyongyang.