VOA “US experts do not believe in North Korea’s will… Wen accountability theory”
Aimed at remarks at the New Year’s conference, “Wen, prove how naive you are”
“I couldn’t find any message for denuclearization at the North Korean party conference”
“SLBM is released, but it’s ridiculous that it’s a negotiation signal”
“Why do you negotiate with the US because Kim Jong-un promised”
Signs of a crisis of cooperation between Korea and the United States on North Korea policy after Biden took office
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At a New Year’s press conference, President Moon Jae-in re-emphasized North Korea’s North Korean State Council Chairman Kim Jong-un’s will to denuclearize, and US experts responded that he was embarrassed. President Moon is misjudgening the situation. After the inauguration of US President Joe Biden, it is expected that the ROK-US cooperation on North Korea policy will be at odds.
On the 22nd, the U.S. state broadcaster Voice of the United States (VOA) reported that few people believe or claim the North Korean leader’s’will for peace and denuclearization’ in the US Joya, who has struggled with the North Korean nuclear issue for 30 years. Even the protagonists of negotiations who judged that the North Korean nuclear issue could be solved by a’step-by-step approach’ through negotiations during the 1st and 2nd nuclear crisis, and even experts in the’dialogue’ in Washington, drew a line on North Korea’s denuclearization intention It has been a long time since he returned to his pessimistic position. Moreover, experts who have refrained from blatant criticism of the top of the alliance have now directly addressed President Moon, and said that they are also showing an atmosphere of taking responsibility for failures in North Korea policy and misjudgment of the situation.
Earlier, on the 18th, at a New Year’s press conference held at the Blue House, President Moon said, “I think that Chairman Kim’s will for peace, dialogue, and denuclearization are clear.” “However, what North Korea requires is instead He emphasized that the security of the system must be guaranteed by the United States and relations with the United States must be normalized.”
Ralph Kosa, the honorary chairman of the Pacific Forum, said through the VOA, “We are once again proving how innocent President Moon is.” “North Korea (through the Party Congress) has made it clear that it will never give up the sword of nuclear weapons. In order to even speak about Korea, they are demanding the withdrawal of the US Forces in Korea as the first step.” Honorary Chairman Kosa criticized, “By now, President Moon needs to know that much, but his legacy is so strongly linked to the progress of unification that it is easily used by North Korea.”
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Robert Manning, a senior research fellow at Atlantic Council, said, “It is very surprising to me that President Moon believes that Kim Jong-un is willing to denuclearize, contrary to all available information.” “Kim Jong-un’s remarks at the 8th Party Congress were clear and certain, and nuclear weapons were essential to North Korean security. It means that we are working hard to develop new missiles, transport systems, and nuclear weapons in order to secure the capability of a second retaliatory attack.”
Evans Revere, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, said, “When I read Kim Jong-un’s remarks at the 8th Party Congress, I couldn’t find any signs that could be read as’clear willingness to denuclearize’. Rather, Kim Jong-un’s speech to the party congress continued to possess nuclear weapons. It was a clearer sign than ever, demonstrating North Korea’s determination to strengthen its nuclear weapons capabilities and treat the United States as a full nuclear power.”
“If you want to know Kim Jong-un’s intention, you just have to listen to him,” said former deputy assistant secretary Revere. “There is no intention to denuclearize anywhere in his words.”
Lee Jung-ho, a senior official at Labor Party Room 39, advised that “North Korea directly proposes to negotiate to negotiate, but does not deliver a three-dimensional complex message.” “North Korea’s actions must be accepted as they are.” He said, “I don’t know why North Korea’s strategy and the structure of foreign policy decisions have been made to recognize that dangers are coming if we create and show advanced weapons such as the submarine launch ballistic missile (SLBM). It was criticized as “the wrong interpretation that comes out of it.” In addition, “North Korea, at the 8th Labor Party Congress, said that the US was the largest enemy and introduced state-of-the-art weapons and announced plans to promote nuclear development in the future. It should be taken as it is, meaning that the US cannot live together under one sky.” It is a ridiculous idea to continue to argue that this strong outbreak is a sign of negotiations, and it makes it impossible to take appropriate measures.”
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“Following Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un also violated the declaration of a joint declaration on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” said Bruce Bennett, a senior researcher at the Rand Institute. I emphasized. “As Kim Jong-un has already made a denuclearization promise, the United States does not need to negotiate the denuclearization of North Korea. Why does President Moon not tell this fact and ask North Korea to fulfill its existing promise?”
David Maxwell, a senior researcher at the Foundation for the Protection of Democracy (FDD), said, “North Korea, which already revealed its nuclear weapons in the Constitution, negotiated with the United States on the same level as the US-Soviet relations that led the’Strategic Arms Limitation Negotiation’ and’Strategic Arms Reduction Negotiations’ during the Cold War. “If we start such negotiations, North Korea will demand the US to reduce its nuclear weapons, which is not a condition that the US can accept.”
/ Reporter Yoon Kyung-hwan [email protected]
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