North Relay Armed Forces Demonstration… Are you moving toward a tougher policy toward North Korea?

The struggle between North Korea and the United States is in full swing. On the 25th, North Korea’s test launch of a new ballistic missile became a catalyst. After the inauguration of the US administration, Joe Biden began to wriggle with North Korean provocations.

President Biden responded immediately. At the first press conference after taking office on the 25th, he pointed out that North Korea’s launch of ballistic missiles was “violation of the resolution of the UN Security Council” and warned that “if North Korea raises tensions, we will respond accordingly.” The US government called for a convocation of the Security Council as a follow-up measure.

In this regard, diplomats between the United States and South Korea believe that the conflict between the principle of ‘strong river fleet’ and the ‘corresponding response’ of the United States, which North Korea announced at the 8th Party Congress in January, about the United States, has become visible. In particular, there is a prospect that if North Korea continues its military provocations, the Biden government’s review of policies toward North Korea, which is in the final stage, may take the lead to a more aggressive policy.

“The Biden administration has devised a plan to gradually pressure North Korea by putting human rights and democracy values ​​at the center of its policy toward North Korea,” said Lim-chul, a professor at Kyungnam University’s Far East Research Institute. Forecast.

However, there are few observations that the situation will not deteriorate significantly at the moment, as North Korea’s provocation is at the level of’low intensity’ using short-range ballistic missiles, and President Biden also stated that “(North Korea) is ready for diplomacy. It is said that the pattern of exploration war between the two countries is still maintained. “As North Korea and the United States have not yet initiated dialogue and negotiations in the future have not been materialized, the US principle of North Korea will not change significantly due to the missile launch,” said Woo Jeong-yeop, head of the US Research Center at the Sejong Institute.

Nevertheless, if the level of provocation by North Korea continues to rise, the US approach to North Korea will inevitably change. James Kim, a senior research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, said, “From the US point of view, there is nothing new about missile launches from North Korea. He predicted that he would be thinking about whether to carry the product and how to use China and Russia.”

The Associated Press said, “We are repeating the military provocation and crisis-raising method that North Korea had in the early days of the US government’s inauguration in order to increase the ransom.” I can,” he said. Earlier, North Korea did not respond to the Biden administration’s proposal for dialogue, and the First Minister of Foreign Affairs Choi Sun-hee said, “We will continue to ignore any attempts by the United States to contact us.”

Meanwhile, the North Korean Labor newspaper reported on the 26th that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited the construction site of a housing complex in the Gangan district near the common gate in Pyongyang, without directly observing the missile test launch. The test launch was attended by Lee Byung-cheol, Vice-Chairman of the Labor Party’s Central Military Commission instead.

Regarding this, Professor Lim interpreted that “Chairman Kim has shown a willingness to prioritize the outcomes of the five-year national economic development plan this year, while promoting economic construction and strengthening national defense capabilities in parallel. A diplomatic source in Seoul analyzed that “the movement of Chairman Kim is based on a calculation that he will not over-stimulate even though the reaction of the Biden administration is reflected.”

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