In the wake of the Tokyo Olympics, President Moon Jae-in’s plan for peace on the Korean Peninsula, which was expected to improve Korea-Japan relations and inter-Korean relations, as well as talks about denuclearization of North America, was destroyed.
This is because North Korea officially declared absent from the Tokyo Summer Olympics on the 6th.
North Korea’s Sports Ministry held on the 25th of last month, on its official website, saying, “To protect athletes from the global health crisis caused by malignant virus infection, at the suggestion of the members, it has decided not to participate in the 32nd Olympic Games.” The results of the General Assembly of the Olympic Committee (NOC) were announced.
As a result, President Moon’s’Tokyo Initiative’ was unexplored, and it was inevitable to improve relations with Japan and amendments to the strategy against Japan. Based on the experience of leading the PyeongChang Winter Olympics into the Peace Olympics, President Moon has drawn a picture that will fuel the resumption of denuclearization dialogue by leveraging the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics. It is expected to recreate the atmosphere of peace three years ago, including three inter-Korean summits and two US-North Korea summits, which began with the participation of North Korea at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018.
President Moon said at a New Year’s press conference last year that “the Korean government plans to actively cooperate for the success of the Tokyo Olympics,” and “it will be able to make it a place to promote peace for the Korean Peninsula.” It is calculated that making a contact surface between the two Koreas by leveraging sports exchanges while the North is locked by a lock can be an opportunity to restore relations. The contents that the two Koreas will actively seek joint advances in various international events including the Tokyo Olympics and further cooperate with the North-South joint attraction of the 2032 Summer Olympics are contained in the September 19 Pyongyang Joint Declaration, which is also meaningful in terms of implementing the agreement between the leaders . In the end, there was a lot of expectation to revive the PyeongChang Initiative, which was lost due to the collapse of the 2nd US-North Korea summit in Hanoi on February 28th, with the Tokyo Olympics as an opportunity.
It is rooted in the’New Functionalist Integration Theory’, which starts with non-political exchanges and cooperation in sports and culture, not in the political and military fields, and gradually widens the contact point with North Korea. He also shares a Mac with’Speech’.
National Security Officer Seo Hoon mentioned the need to promote President Moon’s’Tokyo Initiative’ along with a declaration of an end as part of a plan to promote the denuclearization dialogue in the U.S. during a meeting of the U.S.-U.S. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. It was known to be.
A government official said, “We have hoped that this Olympics will serve as an opportunity to advance peace on the Korean peninsula and reconciliation and cooperation between the two Koreas, but we are disappointed that this has not been possible due to the situation of Corona 19.” We will continue our efforts to find an opportunity to make it happen.” Seoul = Reporter Song Chung-won