The media was substituted for the controversy between South Korea and North Korea over the joint South Korea-US joint exercise in which the United States requested direct relations with North Korea.
North Korea did not directly ask the United States to suspend South Korea-US exercises, and the United States responded with indirect refusal through journalists to the method of 'Kim Yeo-jung's discourse' that indirectly requested South Korea and the manner represented by the Chinese Foreign Minister, and avoided the North-South summit in Beijing.
Josh Rogin, a foreign affairs and security columnist for the Washington Post, said in a column on the 6th that "a senior Biden administration official told me he had no plans to offer any specific incentives to resume dialogue between the United States and North Korea."
"Of course, we support dialogue with North Korea, and that's why we suggested that we meet anytime, anywhere, unconditionally," Rogin said in a column. North Korea made a direct request to the United States.
North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, "The joint military exercise lacks a constructive aspect under the current situation," said Wang Yi, director of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Foreign Ministers' Meeting on the 7th. "If you wish for a recovery, you should not take any action that could lead to escalation of tensions in the situation."
South Korea, North Korea, China, and the United States participated in the ARF Foreign Ministers Meeting, and North Korea's ambassador to ASEAN (concurrently serving as ambassador to Indonesia) Ahn Kwang-il said at the meeting on the 6th that "our will for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula remains unchanged."
North Korea announced the exchange of personal letters between the leaders of the two Koreas and the decision to restore the inter-Korean communication line, and in a statement on the 1st of the day, Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of Chairman Kim Jong-un, the deputy director of the Workers' Party of Korea, said, "Military exercises in an important time of reversal like this one will further cloud the future of inter-Korean relations. He indirectly notified South Korea that it would monitor the South's decision.
At the Aspen Security Forum in the US on the 4th, Democratic Party leader Song Young-gil said of the US, "We must do more to attract North Korea now rather than waiting for provocations that have no choice but to respond to the crisis situation." demand to rebuild trust.
At the ASEAN-ROK Foreign Ministers' Meeting on the 3rd, Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong demanded that "ASEAN play a constructive role so that substantial progress can be made on the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the establishment of lasting peace through dialogue and diplomacy" in relation to the restoration of the inter-Korean communication line. .
Minister Jeong attended the ASEAN+3 (Korea, China, Japan) Foreign Ministers' Meeting and the East Asia Summit (EAS) on the 4th, followed by the ARF Foreign Ministers' Meeting on the 6th.
The North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on its website on the 8th that "It is the firm position of the government of the Republic to expand and develop friendly and cooperative relations with ASEAN member countries, which have a long history and tradition, in all fields," in the name of Chung Hyeon-chul, a member of the Korea-Asia Association.
Kim Ki-jung, director of the Institute for National Security Strategy, said, "The restoration of inter-Korean communication lines is a very symbolic move that shows that North Korea is ready to talk." It will be an important two weeks,” he said.
Regarding the restoration of the communication line at the National Assembly Intelligence Committee, which was requested to be held on the 3rd, Park Ji-won, the National Intelligence Service, said, "It was made at the request of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un." They expressed their intention to take corresponding measures.”
On the 27th of last month, Democratic Party lawmaker Yoon Geon-young (former head of the Blue House situation office) said, “Next year’s Beijing Olympics can be less burdensome from North Korea. (omitted) Taking each step one by one will only bring good results at the Winter Olympics in February next year.”
On the 5th, 74 lawmakers from the Justice Party of the Democratic Party of Korea and the Open Party issued a statement calling for a “conditional postponement of the ROK-U.S. joint military exercise.”