Foreign Minister Eui-yong Eui-yong (right) guides US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln’s seat at the Korea-US Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 17th. Photo co-recruitment group
US Secretary of State Tony Blingen’s remarks aimed at China and North Korea at the first face-to-face foreign ministers’ meeting held on the 17th, the first day of his visit to Korea, were far more than expected. He accused China of violating democracy and human rights, and defined North Korea as a’authoritarian regime’, which should sit face to face with the denuclearization negotiations in the future and build trust, saying, “We are committing systematic and widespread abuse of the people.” It was pouring out criticism of the intention. As the Joe Biden administration, which entered last January, set the basis of the foreign policy to be promoted in the future as “joining forces with an alliance to counter China,” what does it mean that the United States will strengthen the trilateral alliance between Korea, the United States, and Japan to check China. It was predicted. However, it is interpreted that it is very unusual for the first foreign ministers’ meeting to be held as a mutual meeting since the inauguration of the Biden administration, and to make a sharp remark in a headline speech that is open to reporters as it is. As President Biden has revealed the view that the current international situation is a’inflection point’ in which authoritarianism and democracy collide, Korea, the US and Japan, is poised to cooperate with Korea, a major ally shaking between the United States and China. It seems that it has decided that it should be overhauled early. The US keynote was also confirmed in the joint announcement of the US-Japan Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministers (2+2) meeting, which was released the day before. The US and Japan have filled about a third of this document with a strong public check message. They also strongly criticized the Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Xinjiang issues, which are’core interests’ that China has revealed that it will never make concessions. South Korea believed that Minister Blincoln would produce a restrained “public message” on the schedule of his visit to Korea, but the moment the talks began, this expectation was blurred. As Minister Blincoln poured out a’horse bomb’, the Moon Jae-in administration fell into a different level of diplomatic worries. The government has decided to promote harmonious cooperation between Korea’s New Southern Policy and the US’s Indo-Pacific policy according to the principle of “openness, inclusion, and transparency,” whenever the United States puts forward the Indo-Pacific strategy, which has a rich color of checks against China. ”Has maintained an ambiguous position. The former Trump administration, which had neglected the alliance, has accepted some of these explanations, but Blincoln threw a clear message to South Korea that it must prepare for the time to come by strengthening, not simply maintaining the alliance. Another concern is the North Korean problem. This is because Minister Kim Yeo-jeong, vice president of the Central Committee of the North Korean Workers’ Party, made a statement of accusations against the United States on the previous day, and Minister Blincoln immediately accepted North Korean human rights. As a result, the government’s plan to resume the “peace process on the Korean Peninsula” as a starting point, using the Singapore Joint Declaration agreed upon by the North Korean and US leaders on June 12, 2018, was also disrupted. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is confused by the comments of Minister Blincoln. Minister Blincoln’s “remarks of intention” were reported because of the situation in which these contents were not reflected in the joint statement containing the results of the Korea-US Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministers (2+2) meeting scheduled on the 18th. It seems that it took advantage of the fact that the’head remarks’ of the foreign ministers’ meeting one day earlier were disclosed in the media as they were. By Gil Yoon-hyung, staff reporter [email protected]