US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln, who took office on the 27th of last month, is holding his first press conference at the Washington State Department. Washington = AFP Yonhap News
US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln pulled out the Gangon Card against North Korea. Recalling the fact that the Joe Biden administration’s policy toward North Korea has not yet been decided. There is a high likelihood of trying to earn the time necessary for the maintenance of the train lines without losing the initiative.
Minister Blincoln said in an interview with the US NBC broadcast on the 1st (local time) that “the first thing we (diplomatic and security team) should do to advance the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is to look at diplomatic incentives along with additional sanctions.” “After doing this, I think we will be able to reveal our forward plan,” he said. Secretary Blincoln’s media interview is the first time since taking office.
The fact that the outline of the Biden administration’s policy toward North Korea has not been revealed remains the same in Blincoln’s remarks that day. As for diplomatic issues to be resolved with China and Iran, the Biden administration, which is so active from the beginning of its inauguration until the conflict, that the existing policy review should be preceded only on the North Korean nuclear issue. It may be because the North Korean nuclear issue is a very serious and troublesome issue. The probability is not small because it was pushed out of the rankings.
The question is how long will North Korea wait? The Washington Post in the US and Japan said in a recent editorial, “There will be no way to avoid the armed protests by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over the next few weeks,” he said. Some experts point out that it is impossible to rule out the possibility that the US policy toward North Korea will be swayed by North Korea in the future if North Korea conducts a’strategic provocation’ before the US policy is materialized.
Given these circumstances, the Biden government could not continue to leave its policies unclear. Mention of’additional sanctions’ and’diplomatic incentives’ are interpreted as part of the inevitable visualization of North Korea policy.
It is a warning intent to look bigger. The traditional mainstream position of the Democratic Party’s diplomatic relations with North Korea has been that negotiations will be guaranteed when strong sanctions are involved, which is expected to be carried out by the Biden government. It is clear that the possibility of additional sanctions is an effective means to crack down on North Korea’s premature provocations, amid such conditions that it is more difficult to expect sanctions easing than during the Donald Trump administration.
But what is reluctant is North Korea’s resentment to the sanctions. Since the 8th Labor Party Congress at the beginning of this year, North Korea has repeatedly demanded the US to withdraw its policy of hostilities against North Korea, represented by sanctions, by proposing the principle of’strong vs. strong, good vs. good.
Diplomatic incentives can be viewed as a parallel contributor to this. Lim Soo-ho, a senior research fellow at the National Security Strategy Research Institute, said, “It is a variable whether North Korea, which became accustomed to normal diplomacy during the Trump administration, will accept it, but the Biden administration, which has emphasized the’bottom-up’ (upward) negotiation method that goes up from working-level agreements, is the level of negotiation “If the Vice Minister or higher is selected as a high-ranking person and proposes regularization, there is a possibility that North Korea will also take a forward-looking attitude.”
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