Reuters “Attempts to contact North Korea through the US and New York channels”
“I didn’t get any response from Pyongyang”
U.S. Secretary of State and Defense are expected to react to North Korea when they visit Korea
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Joe Biden’s US administration has attempted to contact North Korea since mid-February, but it is reported that it has not obtained a response from the North Korean side. Analysts say that North Korea rejected an offer for dialogue from the United States, whose purpose was to block the’North Korean nuclear risk’ at the beginning of his tenure.
According to a Reuters news agency on the 13th (local time), an anonymous senior official in the US administration said, “Since mid-February, there have been attempts to contact the North Korean government through various channels including New York (the United Nations representative of North Korea).” I haven’t received any response.”
This is the first time it has been known that the Biden administration, which is reviewing its policy toward North Korea, has attempted subtle contact with North Korea. Biden’s administration believes that the policy toward North Korea at the time of former President Donald Trump did not lead to the denuclearization of North Korea, and is fully reviewing the policy toward North Korea.
In the midst of this, it seems that the US sent a signal for dialogue to North Korea to manage the situation of North Korea’s armed provocation and to restore US-North Korea relations. North Korea has been provoking through missile launches and nuclear tests in order to increase its nuclear negotiating power at the beginning of each previous US presidential term.
From the standpoint of North Korea, it is observed that the US would not have felt the sincerity of the proposal for dialogue to manage the situation. In addition, there is an analysis that it may have been judged that responding to US-North Korea dialogue is premature when the US policy toward North Korea is unknown. It is reported that the mediation efforts between the Blue House and the Korean diplomatic authorities are not working, while dialogue between the US and the United States has not yet been established.
However, it is noteworthy whether the visit of the US Secretary of State and Defense, scheduled for next week, will be a turning point for dialogue with the United States. State Department spokesman Ned Price also said on the 12th (local time), “(This visit to Korea) is an important factor in the review of our current policy toward North Korea.” Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the North Korean Graduate School, said, “When the US Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense visit Korea and Japan, we expect that there will be reactions such as Kim Yeo-jung’s talks according to the message to North Korea.”
/ Reporter Heo Se-min [email protected], Reporter Kim In-yeop [email protected]
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