Interpretations are divided over the recent two days in a row, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and vice minister of the Workers’ Party of Korea, who used the word “South Korea” instead of “South Korea.” In the political world, there is an interpretation that North Korea is trying to change inter-Korean relations to ‘state-to-state relations’.
Kim Yo-jong, Vice Minister of the Workers’ Party of Korea. /news1
On the 11th, Rep. Tae Young-ho, a former member of the North Korean embassy in London, argued that “circumstances are being discovered every day that make it suspicious whether North Korea is trying to change inter-Korean relations from a nation to a state-to-state one.”
Rep. Tae mentioned that Vice Minister Kim recently referred to the Ministry of National Defense of Korea as the ‘military department of the Republic of Korea’ on two occasions, and said, “I used the expression more clearly to mean relations between countries.” If we are going to change it to a state relationship rather than a special relationship, it is a serious situation in which the unification-oriented special relationship that has been maintained for 30 years since the adoption of the Inter-Korean Basic Agreement in 1991 is fundamentally overturned. do,” he said.
At the same time, he said to the government, “The Unification Ministry should promptly send an open inquiry to the Kim siblings and openly urge them to clarify their position whether they are trying to change the framework of inter-Korean relations that Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il have also kept.”
On the morning of the 12th, Park Ji-won, former head of the National Intelligence Service, appeared on KBS Radio’s ‘Choi Kyung-yeong’s Strongest Current Affairs’ and said, “Isn’t it completely going to a two-state system?”
Regarding Vice-Chief Kim’s discourse, former director Park analyzed, “The title of Korea means that it is now a foreign country.”
When the host asked, “Do you mean that you and we are strangers?” former NIS director Park said, “We are strangers (meaning),” and “According to our constitution, the territory of the Republic of Korea is the Korean Peninsula and our people. That is why North Korean defectors are also accepted.”
At the same time, he explained that Vice President Kim’s remarks were different from what North Korea called them in the past. Director Park said, “But in fact, I liked that the title of Korea was respected at one time,” referring to Kim Jong-il’s address to President Kim Dae-jung during the inter-Korean summit on June 15, 2000 as “Korea.”
Ha Tae-kyung, a member of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, said, “It seems that the system is being reorganized to enable the use of tactical nuclear weapons.” It opens up possibilities,” he said.
Previously, Vice Minister Kim criticized the US Air Force’s reconnaissance activities in two statements released consecutively on the 10th and 11th, and criticized South Korea as well. In this process, he used the expression ‘Republic of Korea’ instead of the expression ‘South Korea’ he had been using. In the discourse on the 10th, the phrase ‘Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Republic of Korea’ and ‘Korean tribe’ was used, and in the discourse on the 11th, the phrase ‘military department of the Republic of Korea’ was used. The Korean Central News Agency, North Korea’s state-run media, used ‘double arrow parentheses (《》), a purpose of emphasizing the meaning of ‘Republic of Korea’. This expression reflects the viewpoint that North Korea also sees the South as ‘the same people’ or ‘object of unification’.
Meanwhile, North Korea launched a missile provocation on the same day, the day after it threatened to shoot down a USFK reconnaissance aircraft claiming that it had invaded the North Korean economic zone. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a notice to defense reporters that afternoon that “North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile into the East Sea from the Pyongyang area around 10:00 am.” The missile, presumed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), was launched at a higher angle than normal, soared to an altitude of 6,000 km, flew a distance of 1,000 km, and then fell into the East Sea.
2023-07-12 07:41:00
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