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White House spokesman Jen Saki is holding a press conference in the White House briefing room on the 16th. Washington = AP Newsis
The U.S. White House confirmed that North Korea’s nuclear issue was also included in the agenda two days before China’s’Alaska talk’. This is the first time that the United States has pointed out that the North Korean issue will be dealt with at the US-China talks.
White House spokesman Jen Saki said in a press briefing on the 16th (local time) that “part of our strategy for the denuclearization of North Korea is to lead by diplomacy and involvement (dialogue) with partners in the region.” There is also said. Next, Secretary of State Tony Blincoln and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin discussed regional security issues in Japan and South Korea, which are key allies and the first net defenses, and North Korea’s threat is part of it. I will.”
The North Korean nuclear issue is one of the agendas of cooperation between the US and China, along with response to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) and climate change. The US administration’s policy toward North Korea by Joe Biden is highly likely to consist of two tracks, such as “North Korea” focusing on human rights and “North Korea nuclear” to prevent nuclear proliferation. Unlike human rights, the interests of the two countries on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula are not very different.
At the bilateral talks held in Alaska on the 18th, the US seems likely to order China to play an active role in resolving the North Korean nuclear issue. This is because the basic perception of the United States is that China is behind North Korea and is passive in the implementation of sanctions on North Korea by the international community.
The US-China talks are the final step of the Biden government, which is preparing a new policy toward North Korea. It is highly likely that the plan was to complete the North Korean initiative in consultation with China after coordination with regional alliances, such as Korea and Japan, whose stance toward North Korea differs from each other. This is evidenced by Minister Blingen’s Dong-seon, who faces China after a tour of Japan and Korea.
It seems that this plan has not been irrelevant to the fact that the White House released it in advance of the attempted contact with North Korea to the press and released it in time for the visit of the Secretary of State and Defense. Experts analyze that it may be the intention to send a message to North Korea asking them to wait instead of provoking as the position will be settled and negotiations will be possible soon. It is also in the heart that Saki avoided a specific comment, saying, “I will not go ahead with the test,” when asked whether North Korea is expected to conduct an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch test.
US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln (left) and US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin are attending a meeting of the US and ROK Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 18th. Photo Joint Coverage Group
But basically, the Alaska discussion is a confrontational composition. The Wall Street Journal of the United States and Japan on the 17th reported, citing officials familiar with the Chinese initiative, saying that Chinese attendees will urge the US Chue to withdraw sanctions and restrictions on individuals and institutions imposed during the former administration of Donald Trump. . The newspaper said that the measures China wants to withdraw include restrictions on sales of Huawei, China’s largest telecommunications equipment company, restrictions on visas for Chinese Communist Party members, international students, and reporters in state-run media, and the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston.
In addition, the Chinese side proposes a plan to restore the high-level talks between the two countries in the form of a’strategic dialogue’ in the past, and to schedule a video summit between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the April Climate Change Summit. The newspaper said it would do it.
The discussion in Alaska, held two months after President Biden’s inauguration on January 20, is the first high-level U.S.-China meeting in the Biden government. Secretary Blincoln and White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will serve as representatives from the United States, the Communist Party’s diplomatic politician Yang Jietsu, and Wang Yi, a State Council member in charge of foreign affairs and the Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs. It has professed that the United States will push for public pressure over trade, technology, human rights, and regional security issues to the point of saying that it does not expect a joint statement.
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