North Korea appears to have tested the Trump administration's "breaking away from intelligence operations" in the US Biden administration's diplomatic traction strategy with the missile launch.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Ned Price said on the 4th that "the United States is committed to achieving lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula through dialogue and diplomacy with North Korea." Reportedly by VOA.
North Korea fired a missile into the East Sea on the morning of the 5th, and the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “At about 8:10 am, North Korea fired a projectile presumed to be a ballistic missile from inland into the East Sea. in progress,” he said.
"To this end, we will continue to seek engagement with North Korea as part of a coordinated and pragmatic approach to tangible progress in advancing the security of the United States, its allies, and deployed forces," Price said in a previous comment. with the DPRK)” and “This is the ultimate goal of the United States, and it is the result of a review of North Korea policy that was carried out in the months immediately after the Biden administration took office.”
On the 4th, the US State Department responded to a request for comment on the announcement of 'Acquiring Concessions by Freezing North Korea's Nuclear Weapons' by National Diplomatic Director Hong Hyun-ik on the 4th, saying, "The US has fully implemented UN sanctions, a necessary measure to limit resources flowing into North Korea's illegal weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs. We are committed to this,” he replied, revealing the policy of 'restricting the inflow of ballistic missile resources'.
Director Hong said at a seminar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in the United States on November 30 last year, "I hope the Biden administration will be tolerant and forward-thinking and give North Korea a chance to give up its nuclear weapons."
Director Hong continued, about North Korean missiles at a meeting with the correspondents, saying, “We are also developing missiles such as SLBMs. When we test-fire a missile with a range comparable to ours, just like former President Donald Trump did, it is not that we acknowledge it, but that we do not take issue with it. It helps to solve the problem," he said, revealing the application of Trump Republican Party's 'direct trade between leaders by increasing armaments'.
Director Hong, who was the head of the foreign policy research department at the Sejong Institute at the time of the 2019 Korea-U.S. summit, responded to President Trump's remarks on KBS, saying, "The sanctions are still in place, but the relationship with Kim Jong-un is very good and I hope to meet you. The war is being prevented, the hostages have been returned, the remains of the dead have been repatriated. I've done this a lot, but let's see, negotiations are going on soon, so I want to have a summit now, but I can't talk about when." This is talking about the basic stance on negotiation.”
President Moon Jae-in said at the time at the Korea-US summit that “Koreans respect President Trump,” said Bolton, a security adviser who attended the summit, in a memoir.
Bolton flew from Seoul to Australia after a clash with CIA-led Secretary of State Pompeo during a summit between the U.S. and North Korea in Panmunjom, and resigned shortly thereafter.
Andrew Kim, director of the Korea Mission Center (KMC) outside the CIA, who accompanied Secretary Pompeo to Pyongyang secretly, confirmed that 'Singapore North Korea-US summit is a CIA project' immediately after Biden's election. The media reported that they had prepared a request to attend.
On the 27th of last month, the U.S. State Department's Office of Inspection (OIG) released its 'East Asia and Pacific Bureau Audit Report' on the 27th of last month, saying, "During the tenure of Steven Biegun, former special representative for North Korea, under Secretary Pompeo, East Asia and Thailand was marginalized from North Korea affairs, and diplomatic activities and information security were difficult to obtain. limited,” he said.
The audit report stated, “The former special representative for North Korea conducted all important diplomatic activities related to North Korea while reporting directly to the Secretary of State, and East Asia and Thailand did not participate meaningfully in most of the activities of the State Department related to North Korea. East Asia Thailand was not ready to discuss the North Korean issue on the diplomatic stage and publicly, and East Asia and Thailand officials learned about the US policy decisions that the special representative for North Korea explained to other countries through a third country diplomatic partner. Officials were unable to effectively communicate with the media and research institutes because they did not fully understand policies and involvement in North Korea.”
“Since January 21, 2021 (Biden Administration), the State Department’s East Asia and Thailand activities have increased significantly,” the audit report said. The 'China House' plan to create a coordinating department will start in March 2021 and will take two years to fully implement.”
The Japanese government has announced that there is a possibility of a ballistic missile banned by the Security Council for North Korean missiles.