While President Moon Jae-in maintains armaments for “Pope visit to NK” and “Catholic peace,” the US is unable to close the gap by “substantial reduction” through disarmament through “open dialogue on nuclear policy” with North Korea.
In the cover photo 'Last Proposal' of 'Time', which was released on the 24th, President Moon said in an interview titled 'President Moon is making his last attempt to heal his country', saying, "I know I don't have much time." "A peace that exists is a very fragile peace. It can be shaken at any time," he said.
President Moon told U.S. State Department representative for North Korea, Sung Kim, on the 22nd, "I will do my best to put the inter-Korean and North Korea relations on a certain track for the rest of my tenure."
President Moon visited the Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria on the 15th immediately after attending the G7 meeting, and told the Abbot of the Abbey, “When I visited the Vatican in 2018, Pope Francis accepted my offer to visit North Korea and expressed his will to bridge the peace on the Korean Peninsula.” "The pope's visit to North Korea has not been completed yet, but we expect that day to come soon," he said.
President Moon then visited the Cathedral of the Holy Family in Barcelona during his visit to Spain on the 17th and met Cardinal Juan Jose Omeya.
President Moon met with Archbishop Walton Gregory of Washington DC on the 23rd of last month right after the Korea-US summit meeting and said, “I visited Rome in October 2018 to see the Pope, and he showed great interest in peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula, such as consecrating a special mass to pray for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. “He said he would like to visit North Korea and do something that will help peace. I look forward to that day as soon as possible,” he said.
The Pope's visit to North Korea promoted by President Moon visited the Holy See in Rome in October 2018 and told Pope Francis, "When I visited Pyongyang last month, I suggested to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to meet with the Pope saying, 'The Pope is very interested in peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula.' Chairman Kim said on the spot that he received an active welcome, saying, 'If the Pope visits Pyongyang, we will warmly welcome him.'" I can go,” the Blue House revealed.
In August 2017, Foreign Affairs, a US diplomatic magazine, said, “President Moon’s peace is political peace and other Catholic peace.” In an article analyzing 'reliance on information from the Pope, President Moon's armament reinforcement in cooperation with the Trump Republican system' Priority, power-based pacifism was published.
From the beginning, President Moon filled most of the foreign and security lines, such as the head of the security office, the foreign minister, and the director of the National Intelligence Service, with Catholics.
On the 23rd, in a commentary on North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Son-kwon's rejection of the U.S.'s proposal for dialogue, the White House put forward 'dialogue', saying, "Our position has not changed."
"Our view on diplomacy has not changed," the White House said in a statement the day before, saying, "We are ready to engage in principled negotiations with North Korea to address the North's nuclear program challenge." negotiation,' he said.
Colin Carle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Studies, said on the 23rd, "The long-term goal of North Korea policy is denuclearization, but a near term objective of practical steps to reduce tensions and the threat that North Korea poses to us." We plan to achieve this goal in close cooperation with South Korea and Japan.”
Undersecretary Carl's disclosure of the 'Nuclear Declaratory Policy' at the Carnegie Foundation's 'Nuclear Policy' meeting, said, "The US government's existing stance that it will push ahead with policy toward reducing the role of nuclear weapons in terms of deterrence. has been repeatedly confirmed,” the Voice of America (VOA) reported on the 24th.
The Democratic Party's public nuclear policy is a procedure to publicly confirm the policy implementation in the direction of reducing the role of nuclear weapons in terms of deterrence by sending a nuclear deterrence strategy to the outside world.
“There is no doubt that nuclear weapons are a reliable means of deterrence against existential threats, but there is considerable ambiguity about how to use nuclear weapons in a conflict situation that is lower than a nuclear all-out war, and opinions are divided,” said Vice Minister Carl. In his keynote speech, he said, "The Biden administration is struggling to come up with a way to reduce the role of nuclear weapons but to exert deterrence in areas other than nuclear weapons," he said in his keynote speech. VOA reported.
When asked what kind of regime security proposals would make for North Korea's return to denuclearization negotiations, Vice Minister Carl said, "Negotiations with North Korea should not be dialogues for dialogue, but rather a practical way to alleviate tensions on the Korean Peninsula, such as nuclear and missile, and more broadly, reduction of weapons of mass destruction. Measures should be the goal,” he replied, revealing that 'substantial tension reduction through disarmament' is the priority for North Korea policy.