US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln speaks on the foreign policy of the Joe Biden administration at the Washington State Department building on the 3rd. Minister Blincoln argued that North Korea and Russia are serious challenges, but China is the biggest geopolitical test. Washington = Reuters Yonhap News
Joe Biden’s US administration has tried to make submarine contact with North Korea through various channels since last month, but it has not been reported. North Korea has not reacted unusually to the ROK-US combined military exercise (ROK-US training), which has been ongoing since the 8th. Biden’s administration is showing a wait-and-see attitude during the review period to establish North Korea policy, but the observation that if the outline of the policy is revealed, it is predominantly observed that it will take action in some way.
Biden’s administration reveals first contact with North Korea…
North Korea’s Chairman of the State Council and Secretary General of the Labor Party Kim Jong-un attended the 5th meeting of the 8th Party Congress on January 10 to discuss the revision of the Party Code. Pyongyang = Labor News & News 1
Reuters reported on the 13th (local time) that the Biden administration has attempted to contact North Korea through various channels such as the’New York Channel’ since mid-last month, citing a senior US official. The official said, “We have not received any responses from Pyongyang so far,” he said. “Even though Donald Trump’s previous efforts at the end of the administration do not seem to have progressed, dialogue between the United States and the United States has not progressed for more than a year.” The North Korean delegation to the United Nations in New York made no comments, Reuters said. An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Korea announced on the 14th that “we have shared the related matters in advance from the US.”
This is the first time it has been known that the Biden administration has attempted to contact North Korea. As the direction of the US policy toward North Korea has not been clearly determined, it is analyzed that it is not intended to resume negotiations. This is because the contact point was immediately after the inauguration of the Biden administration, and before the ROK-US joint exercise, the possibility of provocation of North Korea was predicted. Park Won-gon, a professor at Ewha Womans University, said, “It must have been a dialogue proposal to manage the situation.”
North Korea’s Chairman of the State Council and Secretary General of the Labor Party, Kim Jong-un, declared the principle of’gang vs. strong and good vs. good’ at the 8th party congress last January I walked out. However, you may have been conscious that the immediate reaction to the new Biden administration’s attempts to contact them is the appearance of overturning them. Hong Min, a research fellow at the Institute for National Unification, explained, “If North Korea looks as if it has been waiting for the dialogue, the bargaining power with the United States will decrease in the future.”
Will Blincoln’s visit to Korea end the exploration war in North Korea?
Satellite photo of North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear facility complex, released by the US North Korean media outlet 38 North. In a satellite image taken by Maxa Technologies on the 10th, a mysterious smoke or vapor is rising from a facility associated with a radiochemistry laboratory that reprocesses used nuclear fuel to extract plutonium. 38 North homepage capture
However, the’unspoken nerve war’ between North America is ongoing. On the 12th (local time), US media outlet 38 North reported that “we caught smoke and steam rising from the Yongbyon nuclear facility complex.” He added the opinion of experts that “it is too early to judge that North Korea is in the process of extracting plutonium.” Last month, it was revealed that the situation of the operation of the uranium enrichment plant in the Yongbyon nuclear facility complex was captured through photo analysis of commercial satellites.
The situation in which North Korea’s unclear nuclear facility operation is being detected without responding to the gestures of the US dialogue can be interpreted politically. This is because North Korea can raise the ransom before full-scale dialogue resumes, and the US can emphasize internal and external awareness of the North Korean nuclear threat. Professor Won-gon Park analyzed that “there is a message even in silence,” and that “this misfire is in some way a strategic communication between North Korea and the United States.”
Regarding the end of the exploration war between the two sides, it is noteworthy whether the visit of US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Asia on the 15th-18th will serve as an opportunity. On the 12th, “I believe the Biden administration’s review of North Korea policy will be completed within a few weeks,” said Sung Kim, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs of the US State Department. Given that this is just before Minister Blincoln’s visit, there are many interpretations that the Biden administration’s policy toward North Korea is actually in the final stage of completion. On this visit, Secretary Blincoln plans to visit allies, South Korea and Japan, to exchange opinions on North Korea and reflect it in policy.
Research Fellow Hong Min predicted, “If the US policy toward North Korea is cleared from the end of April to the beginning of May, North Korea can also accept the offer of dialogue to grasp the intention of the Biden administration.” However, the timing of the ROK-US training and Minister Blingen There is also a possibility that North Korea will attract attention with low-intensity provocations due to overlapping visits to Korea.
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