It's interesting that our continued insistence on not signing a peace treaty because of humans rights violations has allowed them to continue for even longer.
That could be accurate. That's not the point though - the issue is that there are all these articles being written about North Korea wanting a peace treaty as if it's something new, when North Korea's always wanted the peace treaty.
Is that really an "issue" if that rewriting of history is what finally brings peace?
Yes. People rewriting history is always an issue no matter what the gain. Should we let Germany erase the holocaust if they donate sufficiently large sums to charity? Should we forget about the human rights issues in North Korea just so we can label the current situation peaceful, and pretend they do not exist?
I fundamentally disagree with that position, although I suspect that question may play a factor into the current partisan divide and the upcoming elections.
I don't see how signing a peace treaty will stop those human rights violations, unless North Korean leadership gives up power as part of the treaty.
I imagine that with a treaty, they would have an excuse to spend less on military and more on domestic improvement. Whether it would actually play out like that is an entirely different can of worms, though.