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| Material photo. February 21, 2019/News 1 © News1 Reporter Park Se-yeon |
At the same time as Joe Biden’s inauguration of the U.S. administration, tensions between North Korea and the United States continue to rise. A sharp diplomatic war is expected to continue amid tensions between North America.
On the 19th, the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs rebelled against Malaysia’s repatriation of a North Korean businessman to the United States for violating sanctions against North Korea. In a statement released through the Chosun Central News Agency on the same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs argued that “Malaysia sold innocent Korean citizens as’criminals’ and eventually forced them to lead to the United States.”
North Korea then broke up with Malaysia and warned the United States that it will “pay a reasonable price.”
This incident first unfolded in 2019. At the time, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) repatriated Moon, who lived in Malaysia, to the United States, claiming that Moon Cheol-myeong, a North Korean businessman, sent luxury goods that violate the sanctions on North Korea to North Korea and “money laundered” through a ghost company established in Southeast Asia. Asked for something.
Malaysian judicial authorities approved the extradition in December 2019 after acknowledging the charges against Mr. Moon. Moon objected to this and appealed, but earlier this month, the Malaysian Supreme Court rejected Mr. Moon’s appeal, and the delivery of recruits was finalized.
According to the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moon was repatriated on the 17th. This is the same day that US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Korea for a ‘2+2’ meeting.
From the perspective of North Korea, this issue is a case in which US sanctions against North Korea have been heavily applied. From the standpoint of North Korea, which does not recognize international sanctions against North Korea itself, there is a high possibility of raising the human rights issue in the case of “forced repatriation” of their “citizens” to the United States.
In a statement that day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that Malaysia and Malaysia had succumbed to US pressure and declared that it would cut off diplomatic relations, reflecting North Korea’s view of the issue.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs insisted that the Malaysian move was an outspoken boost to the US’ anti-republic hostilities. He stressed that North America is “the most hostile relationship on the planet and technically in a state of war for over 70 years.”
This argument is consistent with North Korea’s position on the United States this year through its foreign stance. North Korea said at the Labor Party’s conference in January that it would be difficult to improve relations unless the US withdrew its hostile policy.
However, the repatriation of Mr. Moon is a matter that, from the perspective of North Korea, exactly the opposite of the measures requested against the United States. In a statement that day, North Korea emphasized’legitimacy’, saying, “Our citizens are workers who have been engaged in legal foreign trade in Singapore for many years.”
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| Foreign Minister Eui-yong Eui-yong and Defense Minister Seo-wook are heading to their seats after taking a commemorative photo with U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blingen and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin at the ROK-US Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministers’ Meeting held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 18th. 2021.3.18/News1 © News1 Reporter Yoonsung Koo |
Therefore, it seems clear that North Korea will use this issue as another opportunity for a strong backlash against the United States.
North Korea told the United States on the 16th, the day before the visit of the two Ministers Blincoln and Austin, Kim Yeo-jeong, to the United States, “At this opportunity, we also said a word to the new administration of the United States, who is struggling to spread gunpowder in our land across the ocean. “I advise you,” he warned, “If it is your wish to sleep for four years in the future, it would be better not to create a job that would make you sleepless from the beginning.”
Nevertheless, through his visit to Korea, Secretary Blincoln defined the North Korean regime as a’authoritative regime’ and criticized the regime as abusing its citizens.
Then, North Korea again said, “If the dialogue itself is to take place, it is necessary to create an atmosphere in which people can sit face to face with each other and talk to each other.” “You have to fix the habit first,” he rebelled.
According to North Korea’s announcement that the repatriation of a North Korean businessman in Malaysia took place on the 17th, North America is in fact already predicting a tense phase regardless of the message of Blincoln and Austin’s visit to Korea.
In his discourse, First Vice Minister Choi Sun-hee said, “After the US Secretary of State comes to South Korea, I am curious about what kind of world will have a surprising and unscrupulous sophistication.” .
In this context, North Korea, which redefined US-North Korea relations as’most hostile to the earth’ in a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Malaysia case, is expected to launch another intense offensive against the US’s visit to Korea. This is likely to lead to a situation that heightens tensions in the overall relationship between the US and the United States. Some are even cautiously raising the possibility of North Korea’s physical provocation.