[국제]White House “North Korea’s nuclear weapons are a serious threat, alliances and negotiations”…

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The US White House has made its first official position on the North Korean nuclear issue.

President Biden said he saw the North Korean nuclear program as a serious threat and that he would thoroughly review it in close consultation with his allies.

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“The North Korean nuclear issue will be thoroughly reviewed in consultation with allies”.

The Biden administration’s approach to the North Korean nuclear issue has been officially announced.

What differentiates it from the previous Trump administration?

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The US White House announced on the 22nd local time that it will conduct a thorough review on the North Korean nuclear issue under close consultation with the Alliance.

This is a new strategy, and President Biden stressed that the North Korean nuclear program is a serious threat.

The mention of the new strategy is believed to have foreshadowed that the Biden administration, which was launched on the 20th, will pursue a policy toward North Korea on a different route and basis from the former Donald Trump administration.

The Biden administration, like other foreign policy, will pursue a differentiated solution from the Trump administration in the North Korean nuclear issue, but it is still in its inauguration, so it is highly observed that it will undergo a process of reviewing North Korea policy again for the time being.

“One of the first things we’re going to do about North Korea policy is to revisit the overall approach,” said Tony Blincoln’s nominee at a Senate approval hearing on the 19th.

He also noted that the North Korean nuclear issue has plagued the U.S. administration in the past, but it has actually gotten worse.

This was perceived as a recognition that a creative solution that does not follow the previous government’s failure course is needed, and as an explanation that the just inaugurated Biden administration is looking at the existing policy toward North Korea and refining it.

President Biden has a strong negative perception that former President Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un three times, including two US-North Korea summits, but has not made progress in denuclearization, giving time to develop nuclear programs and strengthening the legitimacy of the North Korean regime. .

In addition, it is known that the former President Trump promoted one-on-one negotiations with North Korea, thereby alienating alliances such as South Korea and Japan as well as China and Russia, which can play an important role in denuclearization negotiations.

This leads to the expectation that the Biden administration will take a multilateral approach that emphasizes bottom-up approach to working-level negotiations and cooperation with neighboring countries, including alliances, instead of the Trump administration’s top down.

In particular, it is argued that the difference is that the new administration has many Korean peninsula experts, including President Biden himself, the White House National Security Council, and the State Department, as opposed to the early Trump administration, which did not have many experience with North Korea.

How quickly the Biden administration will reorganize its North Korea-related progress and prepare a policy stance, and what attitude North Korea will show and provocate in this process are expected to act as variables that will affect the future US-North Korea relations and denuclearization negotiations.

This is YTN Kim Jeong-hoe.

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