The White House damages direct mention of Kim Yeo-jung’s discourse… “The focus on North Korea is diplomacy and denuclearization”

Input 2021.03.17 07:33

The White House of the United States refrained from direct reaction to North Korea’s warning message to the United States using the ROK-U.S. joint exercise as a link, and expressed its principle of diplomacy and denuclearization.

On the 16th (local time), White House spokesman Jen Saki said in a press briefing on the day before, “we have nothing to comment or answer directly to the remarks from North Korea.”

Saki said Secretary of State Tony Blincoln and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were on a tour of South Korea and Japan. He then explained that regional security issues will be the subject of discussion with both countries. The first high-level diplomatic talks with China after the inauguration of the Joe Biden administration on the 18th, after Minister Blincoln’s visit to Japan, will also discuss regional security issues.

“Our focus right now is to cooperate and coordinate with our partners and allies on a variety of issues, including security, on the Korean Peninsula,” said Saki. When asked if the answer was to lower the level so as not to stimulate North Korea, he only said, “Our goal will always be on diplomacy and denuclearization in North Korea.”

Earlier, Vice Minister Kim took the issue of the joint training between the US and the ROK in a significantly reduced manner, saying, “The South Korean authorities made a quick choice to go beyond the red line.” I said. Kim Yeo-jeong’s talk to South Korea took only two months, and came a day ahead of the simultaneous visits of the US Secretary of State and Defense (17th).

Regarding the Joe Biden administration, he said, “A new administration in the United States is struggling to breathe gunpowder on our land from across the ocean.” It would be better not to make it,” he said.