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The Olympics are an international political event.. Tokyo Olympics’non-participation’ means international politics’Pato’
The current regime 2018 PyeongChang Again, abandoning dreams and preparing a report on the failure of inter-Korean relations
President Moon Jae-in, first wife Kim Jeong-suk, Kim Jong-un’s younger brother, Kim Yeo-jeong, the first vice-president of the Central Committee of the Party, and North Korean delegation Kim Young-nam, the standing chairman of the Supreme People’s Assembly, stood up and raised their hands when a single South-North Korean team entered the Korean Peninsula during the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. Is shaking.
1. North Korea announced that it would not attend the Tokyo Olympics in July, to protect athletes from corona… The Olympics are more international political news than sports news.
It was on the 25th of last month that North Korea held the’Chosun Olympic Committee General Meeting’ and decided not to attend. This is the day North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the East Sea. And in Japan, this is the day the Toko Olympics torch relay began.
2. North Korea announced’no attendance’ on April 6, ten days later. In the meantime, there have been important diplomatic events surrounding North Korea. The US has called the heads of the security offices of Korea and Japan to discuss the North Korean issue. It was a place to coordinate the direction of US foreign policy toward North Korea. The firm position on the North Korean nuclear program has been reaffirmed.
North Korea must have watched the process. And it seems to have come to the conclusion that there is no expectation for improvement in international relations for the time being.
3. The problem is the Moon Jae-in regime, especially President Moon Jae-in, who must have been very disappointed, because he had high expectations.
Moon Jae-in dreamed of recreating the ‘2018 PyeongChang Olympics’ in the ‘2021 Tokyo Olympics’. In 2018, I hoped that the’detente wind’ aroused by Kim Yeo-jung at that time will blow again… so I would have expected to hold inter-Korean summits, North Korea-Japan summits, and North American summits in Tokyo. As a result, if the warm north wind blows violently and helps to re-create the government in the presidential election in March next year, it would be a golden start.
4. The Moon Jae-in administration is still full of regrets. In North Korea’s declaration of’no participation in the Olympics’, the Ministry of Unification said,’It is unfortunate,’ and said,’We will continue our efforts to find opportunities for progress in the inter-Korean dialogue for peace on the Korean Peninsula.’ Of course you should. But the fantasies have to break and go.
On the 30th of last month, Kim Yeo-jeong criticized Moon Jae-in as a’American parrot’ with the word’the ruler of South Korea’. On the 16th, he said, “It will be difficult to come back on the spring day three years ago.”
5. North Korea is always looking at the United States, and inter-Korean relations fluctuated according to US-North Korea relations. Now, North Korea is opposed to the strong atmosphere of the US Biden government. It’s the same as Biden’s saying,’The United States is back’, and’strong sanctions against North Korea are back’.
At the end of the regime, the Moon Jae-in administration is not in a situation where a warm wind will blow. During the tenure of less than one year, you should not promote unreasonable events. Rather, in spite of six inter-Korean and North-American summit meetings since the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, why did the comedy in Hanoi ended in vain after a year?. Why did Moon Jae-in hear the’American parrot’ in spite of such efforts? It’s time to reflect on.
In order not to waste the expensive lessons of the Moon Jae-in administration, we must leave a failure report to the next government.
2021.04.06.
