Recently, there have been a series of claims from some circles in the U.S. warning of North Korea’s threat of war. The idea is that since North Korea’s threat is unusual this time, South Korea and the United States must bring North Korea to the dialogue table and make some concessions to their position on ‘denuclearization of North Korea.’ However, the US Washington Post (WP) said on the 25th, “The possibility of North Korea invading the Korean Peninsula is a ‘hasty conclusion.’” It is possible that North Korea’s heightened threat is aimed at diverting the West’s attention from the rapid military closeness between North Korea and Russia. “This is bigger,” he said.
On the morning of the 24th, when North Korea launched several cruise missiles into the West Sea, citizens visiting Seoul Station in Jung-gu, Seoul are watching news of North Korean missile launches. /News 1
WP’s foreign affairs and security columnist Josh Rogin said on this day, ‘Kim Jong-un is preparing for war… In a column titled ‘Not on the Korean Peninsula, but in Ukraine and the Middle East’, he said, “Due to a series of recent erratic actions by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, many in Washington are speculating that he is preparing for war on the Korean Peninsula.” “A more likely explanation is that he is more focused on helping North Korea’s allies, such as Russia and Iran, fight a war.”
North Korea has recently raised the level of threat by mentioning ‘complete annihilation’ and ‘physical conflict’, but in fact, Kim Jong-un’s main interest is in expanding military cooperation between North Korea and Russia and North Korea and Iran, not the Korean Peninsula.
Regarding the recent assertion by Middlebury Institute of International Studies researcher Robert Carlin and Professor Siegfried Hacker that “the situation on the Korean Peninsula is as dangerous as before the Korean War and that Kim Jong-un’s frequent mention of ‘war’ is not a bluster,” Joshi said, “The two experts “They may be hastily concluding that Chairman Kim is actually preparing residents and the military to fight,” he said.
“Kim Jong-un’s real priority is to develop military cooperation with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” he said. “The threat (towards the Korean Peninsula) is actually an attempt to distract the West (who are wary of close ties between North Korea and Russia) and its own people.” “It is more likely that it is,” he said. At the same time, he cited an analysis by Jenny Town, a senior researcher at the Stimson Center, who said, “By heightening tensions with Washington and Seoul, Kim Jong-un can justify pouring North Korean funds into the weapons industry rather than feeding his own people.”
Joshi said, “In the midst of this, it is unfortunate that the Joe Biden administration does not seem to have a creative policy toward North Korea. The Biden administration has strengthened relations with Korea and Japan, but managing the alliance alone is not enough. At the very least, the State Department should appoint a special representative for North Korea to replace Special Representative for North Korea Sung Kim, who retired last month.”
Meanwhile, U.S. Department of Defense Deputy Spokesperson Sabrina Singh was asked at a briefing whether there were concerns that North Korea’s support for Russia would prolong the war while the U.S. stopped supporting Ukraine due to lack of budget, saying, “Yes. “We are very concerned about the relationship between Russia and North Korea,” he said. “Continued support from countries like North Korea and Iran is actually prolonging the war, and we are concerned about that,” said Deputy Spokesperson Singh. “He said.
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