文 “Adopt a new strategy” by Biden White House on “Singapore Declaration Departure”

“The dialogue between the North and the United States and the North and the South should continue and develop the achievements achieved by the Trump administration.” (18th President Moon Jae-in New Year’s press conference)
“We will adopt a new strategy to keep the alliance safe with the United States.” (White House Spokesperson Jen Saki on the 22nd local time)

As soon as the US administration was launched, the difference in perception between the US and the ROK over the denuclearization of North Korea was exposed. President Moon said’successor’, but the Biden administration formulated a’new strategy’. This shows that the views of the South Korean government, which wants to restart at the “North Korea-US Singapore talks” during the Donald Trump administration over the North Korean nuclear cooperation between the United States and the United States, and the Biden administration, which differentiated themselves from the Trump administration, are pointing in different directions.

At the New Year’s press conference, President Moon said, “If we start again with the Singapore Declaration (2018) and achieve more concrete measures, we will be able to conduct dialogue between the North and the United States and inter-Korean dialogues a little faster.” said.

On the other hand, spokesman Saki of the White House Biden was asked about North Korea policy at a briefing on the 22nd and said, “The President’s view is, without a doubt, that North Korea’s nuclear ballistic missiles and other proliferation-related activities pose a serious threat to world peace and security. It is undermining the global non-proliferation regime.” “We are clearly still paying great attention to the deterrence of North Korea,” he said. “We will adopt a new strategy to keep the American people and allies safe.” The’new strategy’ is in the same vein as the appointee of Secretary of State Tony Blincoln at a hearing on the 9th, “The first thing we are going to do is to revisit the overall approach (related to North Korea policy).” The purpose is to look for new solutions while reviewing the Trump administration’s policy toward North Korea from the beginning.

While pursuing a new strategy, the Biden administration is expected to maintain its’complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization’ (CVID) policy aimed at thorough denuclearization of North Korea. Japan’s Kyodo News Agency reported that US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin confirmed the (CVID) policy at a telephone talk with Japanese Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo on the 24th.

Reporter Jeong Jin-woo [email protected]