Office of the President “North Korea’s drone infiltration bid for internal control… “Confirms it’s shaky”

Shin Won-sik, director of the National Security Office of the Presidential Office, said on the 13th that North Korea’s claim that a South Korean drone entered North Korean airspace was “for internal control” ” and “instead, it’s evidence that North Korea is shaking inside. .” Director Shin said he could not confirm whether North Korea’s claims were genuine in terms of national interest.

Director Shin appeared on KBS that day and said, “(North Korea) believed that the gain of internal control by extending the threat to the regime was greater than the loss of Pyongyang’s air defense network.” is broken.”

Previously, the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an ‘important statement’ on the 11th, saying, “The Republic of Korea has made a serious political and military provocation by introducing drones into a city -big Pyongyang,” and if the same thing happens again. , “we will immediately move into (attack) action.”

Director Shin said he could not confirm whether the drone went to North Korea as North Korea claimed, and if so, whether the drone was sent by a private anti-North Korean group. He said, “It is not appropriate to ask the government to confirm the facts regarding North Korea’s views.” He continued, “If we confirm (whether it’s true), it will develop the South-South conflict situation that North Korea wants,” and added, “According to our long experience, the A proper response is to ignore North Korea’s views.”

Regarding North Korea’s Vice Minister of the Workers’ Party Kim Yo-jong, who threatened in a statement the night before that “a terrible disaster will happen as soon as South Korean drones are found again,” Shin said, “In addition to building justification for provocation, (North Korea) is increasing tensions again through internal control.” “This is what they want us to do,” he elaborated.

Regarding North Korea’s recently announced intention to ‘cut the land route between South and North Korea and proceed with the construction of fortifications,’ Director Shin said, “This is to prevent mass abuse (of North Korean residents),” and “to symbolically show that. it is a different country from the Republic of Korea.” “It is for this purpose,” he elaborated.

Director Shin emphasized the possibility that North Korea would not go ahead with constitutional changes reflecting the ‘two enemy states theory’ at the Supreme People’s Assembly on the 7th and 8th. In an interview with TV Chosun the day before, he said, “It is appropriate to assess it as a reservation right now,” and added, “It seems that North Korea has not yet created a logic to accept the concept of the replace country and union.” He said, “I think the possibility that the constitutional change was made behind closed doors is low.”

The Korea-US-Japan summit to be held within the year is expected to be held separately from the multilateral summit at the end of the year. Director Shin said, “After the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit and the G20 (20 major countries) summit, ideas are being reached (among the three countries) to be reached around the end of the year, but not later than the end of the year.”