 Hello and welcome to NewsClick. I am Veerun Kumar from NewsClick and I am going to interview today Mr. Choo who is the Chief of Political Department of Korean Alliance for Progressive Movement. We are having the discussion on the North Korea and South Korea peace process which has recently started and this discussion is happening in the sidelines of Asian Assembly for People's Movement and Organization in Dhaka. Welcome Mr. Choo. We are also having Mr. Choi who is the translator for this discussion. Welcome. Mr. Choo, my first question is regarding the recent peace process which has started in the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea. What is your comment on this? The first question is regarding the recent peace process which has started in the Korean Peninsula. What is the relationship between South Korea and North Korea? During the war between North Korea and South Korea last year, the war between North Korea and South Korea was very bad. The reason is that President Trump is the fundamental reason for the North Korean policy. Over the last year, the relationship between North Korea and South Korea had risen to a conflict which was mainly due to Trump's aggressive politics against North Korea. After President Trump became a member of the United States, he became the biggest pressure and threat policy in the Korean Peninsula. This policy was the strategic domestic policy of the former Obama administration. Through the pressure of the North Korean government, we are trying to get rid of the reality of the North Korea. This is the policy that we are trying to get rid of. In the short term, North Korea's resistance to this policy was a threat to the Korean Peninsula last year. While Trump took his place, even before that, President Obama has been sustaining an oppressive politics against North Korea. And when Trump gained his power, this sustained pain has grown onto the surface and it just broke out to how North Korea and South Korea were not very friendly. That was the result that came out. What do the people in South Korea and North Korea actually want? Of course, people want peace in the region. So can you explain about the peace process by the people of South Korea in this regard? I'd like to know what the people in South Korea and North Korea want, and what the people in South Korea are doing in the process of peace. We need to know a little bit about the basic principles of this policy. There was a great pressure on the United States, the United States of South Korea, and the United States of Korea. In order to prevent the nuclear war, North Korea developed and experimented with nuclear weapons last year. And it developed a 13,000-kilometer nuclear nuclear missile. In order to prevent the North from being able to attack the United States, North Korea continued to fight in the middle of the Korean Peninsula. Since the beginning of the year, the atmosphere of peace has been very high. And the first process of that process has become a normal Olympics. We need to look at the fundamental question, which is what America has been doing against North Korea was threatening that they would break the war anytime. And North Korea, in defense, would have to build a weapon that could keep America from attacking, which was their nuclear weapons. By the experiments, the nuclear experiments, North Korea prevented America from attacking them first. And along these processes, among South Koreans, the anxiety for war grew when people demanded for peace now. And we're expecting the Pyeongchang Olympics would be a chance to make some peace with North Korea and South Korea. My final question is regarding the present government of Moon in South Korea. Do you think that the Moon government will be successfully able to take forward the peace process or will it crumble to the transgression? I think the Korean-American military training will be carried out. The training will be called the kill-resolve training from March to April. The tension in the Korean Peninsula has been rising from April to every year. Trump and Moon Jae-in are trying to act on the training in April through the agreement. If the training is canceled in April, the peace in the peninsula will be shown very quickly. If the training is canceled in May or June, the tension will be very high. First of all, as mentioned before, Pyeongchang Olympics is going to be a great key to continuing the peace. However, there is another obstacle after the Pyeongchang Olympics, which is the annual combined training of the U.S. and Korean forces, which is called the kill-resolve. That usually happens in April every year. However, the Moon government and the Trump's government are trying to make an agreement. They could postpone the training or minimize it or even for the best. If you could just go without the training, you could actually make the peace for long even after the Pyeongchang Olympics. If we have the kill-resolve training in April without any changes, we don't expect the best out of it. However, the U.S. is not only increasing the influence of the peninsula, but it is also trying to maintain its nuclear power. The U.S. biggest business in Korea was selling weapons to the Korean army. To do this, America has been trying to maximize the conflict between North Korea, make South Korea feel a danger, and then sell the weapons. However, since now North Korea has their weapons against the U.S., they can't do this anymore. But even now, the U.S. has tried to sell the weapons, so now he says his idea is it doesn't matter for the Moon government to do the right thing, but it's for the people to make the right choice and prevent the war from happening and keeping the peace. Thank you for speaking to NewsClick. Thank you for watching NewsClick and please log into our website www.newslick.in.