■ Facilitator: Anchor Park Seok-won, Anchor Um Ji-min
■ Appearance: Wang Seok-taek, director of Global Diplomacy Center, Korean Pyeongyang Policy Research Institute
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◇Anchor> China was also trying to create a small NATO in Asia earlier, and it showed an uncomfortable look.
◆Select Wang> That’s right. It is very inconvenient for China.
◇Anchor> Compared to NATO, what does it mean for Korea, the US, and Japan to cooperate?
◆Wang Seon-tae> Compared to NATO, there is a difference in terms of the scope and level of cooperation between countries. NATO is, in a word, a military alliance. It is the highest level of cooperation between countries, and it is a large-scale multilateral security military alliance in which 31 countries have joined, but there is no room for the Korea-US-Japan cooperation body to be seen as a military alliance. When it comes to a military alliance, if one side is invaded by another country, it should consider itself invaded and help, but there is no such phrase. There is no such phrase, but in terms of cooperation, everything except that sentence is included, and rather than the military field, the three countries of Korea, the US and Japan this time are the highest level of cooperation between countries in these areas: economy, technology, education, society, and people-to-people exchange. I wrote everything down to cooperate. Looking at it this way, since we have established a top-level cooperative relationship that corresponds to the level of an alliance in reality, it is one level lower than NATO in terms of level, but it is almost equivalent. It’s much smaller. In that respect, it can be seen as one step lower than NATO in some ways, but looking at it now, there is a diplomatic strategy and plan that the United States has. The United States has been working hard for more than 20 years to make the Korea-US-Japan trilateral cooperation body the way it is today. In this situation, I have finally achieved my diplomatic goal that I have been dreaming of for more than 20 years, but why is that? In 1999, there was a Korea-US-Japan trilateral cooperation body. It is called tea-cock, and through tea-cock discussions, it was held for 3-4 years, but it was discontinued as friction arose between Korea and Japan. From then on, I dreamed that the United States would not be able to do it, and that I should create a cooperative body between Korea, the United States and Japan, and create a larger NATO-like cooperative body. But every time it was canceled due to problems between Korea and Japan. The most representative is the 2015 Korea-Japan comfort women agreement. That’s what the Obama administration did, and at that time, as Vice President, the project that President Biden actively cooperated with and intervened in was the improvement of Korea-Japan relations. Improve Korea-Japan relations and then cooperate with Korea, the US and Japan. After creating a Korea-US-Japan cooperation system, we will gather more other cooperative countries. Right now, countries like the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore can join additionally, and if you go a little further, countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, and India can also join. Then, the foundation for the trilateral cooperation between Korea, the US and Japan to develop into a 10-nation Indo-Pacific cooperation is the first puzzle. Next puzzle, next puzzle, multilateral military alliance similar to NATO. That is the American dream, and that is the ultimate goal. But in the meantime, it hasn’t been done for 20 years, and now it’s here, so it’s a happy situation for the United States to the extent that crying for three days and nights is not enough.
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2023-08-19 06:41:00
