As the US Senate formalized the Trump administration's failure in North Korea policy and set the revitalization of alliance relations as a top priority in the new policy, South Korea, the top priority of Trump's policy, became the target country.
At a hearing in the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the nominee for the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific said “revitalizing relations with allies and partners” as the top priority for North Korea policy.
Voice of America (VOA), which released the remarks at the hearing on the same day, said that foreign affairs chairman Bob Menendez "will take responsibility for the pressure and challenge of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, which have been strengthened by President Trump's faulty North Korea policy beyond China." reported on the 16th.
Crittenbrink's No. 1 nominee said, "Allies and partner networks are our greatest strategic assets. It enables us to combine our forces to advance our common interests, deter common threats, and promote universal value." . We will support a pragmatic, well-coordinated and open approach to democracy, while relying on sanctions enforcement and deterrence.”
The nominee selected 'preemptive advantage in strategic competition with China' as the second priority, and 'reducing the threat from North Korea's nuclear and missile programs' as the third priority. did.
State Department spokeswoman Price said on the 9th that the new North Korea policy is "a fine-tuned and practical approach to seeking diplomacy." "The approach will make tangible progress and engage with North Korea, which promotes security for the American people, for the people of our regional allies, and for the U.S. troops dispatched." It is based on diplomacy,” he said, with 'contact with North Korea' as a subordinate priority.
Secretary of State Blincoln specified the “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” demanded by South Korea in the joint statement of the ROK-U.S. summit, and then specified “the denuclearization of North Korea by the United States by the United States” in the joint statement of the NATO summit, becoming the monopolist in the North Korean nuclear negotiations.
Due to the 'denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula' in Blincoln's strategy, it became the agenda for direct negotiations between the US, a nuclear power, and North Korea, a nuclear developing country. has been set
"I agree that implementing the sanctions regime with the tools we have along with the tools of the United Nations is very important to our denuclearization goal," said Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for East Asia and Pacific Crettenbrink at a Senate hearing.
On the 15th, Minister of Unification Lee In-young headed to the United States, the Ministry of Unification announced on the 15th, "We have been preparing for Minister Lee's visit to the United States, such as schedule consultations, but for now, we have temporarily put off a trip to the United States in late June.