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| Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping <자료사진> © AFP=News1 |
Recently, China and Russia have begun to express their intentions to be involved in the situation on the Korean Peninsula, referring to the’six-party talks’. The administration of Joe Biden also announced that China and Russia should discuss the North Korean issue together. Interest is drawing on whether the North Korean nuclear negotiations will enter a new phase through multilateral negotiations.
First, Chinese Korean Peninsula Special Representative Liu Sao-ming said in English on Twitter on the 12th (hereafter local time), “I look forward to contacting North Korea, the United States, Korea, Russia, and China, and hope to achieve the goal by strengthening communication and coordination. “I wrote. Mentioning the countries of the six-party talks, they actually expressed expectations for the resumption of the six-party talks.
Next, Russian Ambassador to North Korea Alexander Machegora mentioned the six-party talks in an interview with Tas on the 14th, saying, “The form of the six-party talks used to resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula from 2003 to 2009 will inevitably be needed again.”
At present, talks between the United States and the United States for negotiations on the denuclearization of North Korea are tightly blocked after the breakdown of the North Korea-North Korea summit in Hanoi in February 2019. Biden’s US administration has announced that it is in the final stage of reviewing North Korea policy, but there is no news of this announcement.
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| U.S. President Joe Biden is giving a speech at the White House in Washington on the 15th (local time) announcing the first sanctions against Russia, including the expulsion of 10 diplomats on charges of intervening in the presidential election and being involved in a cyber hacking case. © AFP=News1 © News1 Reporter Dongmyeong Woo |
In this situation, President Biden said at a White House press briefing on the 15th, “Currently, the US and Russia are discussing the possibility of a summit meeting,” and “the two countries can respond to the nuclear threat from Iran and North Korea.” Analysts say that President Biden sent a positive signal to the need for the six-party talks between China and Russia.
US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln has also ordered’China’s role in resolving the North Korean problem’. Minister Blincoln said at a joint press conference immediately after the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense (2+2) on the 18th of last month that “the role of China is important in the denuclearization of North Korea” and “there is a part to cooperate.”
Earlier in the North Korean nuclear negotiations, when dialogue between the United States was not resolved, he had the experience of turning the six-party talks to establish a peace regime on the Korean peninsula. For this reason, observations are made as to whether it is turning back to the North Korean nuclear talks.
However, it is unclear whether North Korea will respond to this. In addition, it is known that both the ROK and the US governments are negative about this as there is a precedent that the stalemate was prolonged due to the solidified composition between the US, Japan and North Korea, China and Russia in addition to the struggle between North America.
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| North Korean military tactical guided weapon’ (KN-24). Also known as’North Korean version of ATCMS’ (US CSIS missile defense project) © News1 |
The six-party talks resulted in the’September 19 Agreement (2005)’ containing contents such as’denuclearization of the Korean peninsula’ and’confirmation of the US’ intention to inviolate North Korea’, but it was virtually destroyed when North Korea restarted its core plutonium facility in 2009.
Park Won-gon, a professor at Ewha Womans University, explained, “The Biden administration continues to emphasize multilateralism.”
Professor Park said, “It’s another question whether we will put it into the framework of multilateral cooperation,” he said. “Rather, it means that China and Russia are taking the breath away from North Korea over sanctions against North Korea, so we need to derive cooperation in that area. It reads,” he stressed.
“I will not rule out the possibility, but it will not be easy because we know that neither the Korean government wants nor the US nor the US will be difficult,” he said. “If it goes to multilateralism, the Biden administration will manage rather than solve the North Korean nuclear issue. It can be interpreted as meaning,” he added.