

The DPRK has already responded that anything short of material de-escalation would not be registered as reconciliation.
The DPRK abandoning reunification was the materially correct decision. It makes ROK authorities have to come to them rather than creating joint spaces where progress is stalled and vectors for subversion are created.
Abandoning reunification also would make it more feasible to agitate against forced conscription since the justification is so plainly not there.















We are still in the denial stage of the grieving process after 3 years of protracted war.