North Korean Army, White House ‘Russia Undecided’ Yoon Seok-yeol ‘Delete End and North Korean Nuclear’ Trump ‘Location’
The White House approached the North Korean Army’s actions in Russia as ‘undecided Russia’ and ‘negotiation material between Trump and Putin’, and President Yoon Seok-yeol adopted ‘North Korean military modernization’ as a security threat, excluded ‘North Korean nuclear weapons’, and urgently deleted ‘end of North Korean regime’.
It seems that President Yoon Seok-yeol adopted a hard-line conservative strategy of passing off Trump’s election as ‘North Korean secret transaction material’ and declared through a conservative American newspaper that he would limit himself to domestic political games.
In an interview with CBS News’ ‘Face The Nation’ on the 10th, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan answered the anchor’s question about the cost of sending North Korean troops, saying, “(We don’t know for sure) (what will come and go). Honestly, Russian President Putin doesn’t know either and he probably hasn’t decided what to do for North Korea.”
On the 7th, U.S. Department of Defense Press Secretary Sabrina Singh stated, “We fully expect the North Korean military to be able to engage in combat,” using the initials of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), as “current combat participation, future participation expected.”
On the 8th, President Yoon made a sharp turn in an interview with Newsweek, changing the existing policy of “end of the North Korean regime if North Korea uses nuclear weapons” to “response based on the ROK-US alliance.”
President Yoon's 'North Korean regime apocalypse nuclear attack' seems to have been used to pressure the Biden regime to 'prioritize diplomacy', and after Trump's presidential election support was realized and the Trump Republican regime emerged, he handed over 'full authority for North Korean nuclear deals' to the conservative strategy group and in return, supported the reinforcement of the hard-line regime in South Korea.
On October 1st, President Yoon declared, “If North Korea attempts to use nuclear weapons, that day will be the day the North Korean regime ends,” and on September 30th, Minister of National Defense Kim Yong-hyun formalized the “end of the North Korean regime” as a national defense policy, saying, “If North Korea uses nuclear weapons, we will bring about the ‘end of the regime’ based on the ‘overwhelming power’ of the ROK-US alliance.”
“That’s certainly possible,” Sullivan said on CBS’ “Expecting Kim Jong Un” when asked in response to a follow-up question about whether that meant support for the nuclear program. “We’ve already heard from the Russians that they’ve said that we need to look at North Korea’s nuclear program differently than we did five or 10 years ago.”
Regarding the actions of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who holds the power to decide whether to participate in the Ukrainian war, U.S. officials said, “We are not sure what restrictions are being placed on the use of force,” the New York Times reported.
On the other hand, some U.S. officials changed their predictions from “expecting direct involvement in the North Korean military battle” to “preparing for war.”
A Ukrainian official told the New York Times on the 10th that “the North Korean military will be divided into two groups, an assault force and a support force, to support security in the territory recaptured from the Ukrainian military,” indicating “non-participation in combat.”
U.S. officials are pessimistic about the Ukrainian war itself, focusing on analyzing Ukraine’s actions in occupied Russian territory and appearing to be on the two-edged sword of combat and negotiation for the “Trump-Putin negotiation” in line with Trump’s strategy.
The New York Times reported on the 10th that North Korean troops are currently training with Russian troops in the area west of Kursk, and that “signs of an offensive by Russia and North Korea are emerging” as President-elect Trump prepares to take office with the goal of ending the war as soon as possible.
Ukrainian officials told the Times that Russia has supplied North Korean troops with machine guns, sniper rifles, anti-tank missiles, and rocket-propelled grenades.
U.S. officials said that “Russia is training North Korean troops in artillery fire, basic infantry tactics, and, crucially, trench clearing.”
The New York Times said that “the training suggests that at least some North Korean troops will participate in a frontal assault on Ukrainian trench defenses,” and that they will participate in future combat.
The New York Times, which compiled the report, said, “A new U.S. assessment concludes that Russia can concentrate its forces without withdrawing its main battlefield priority, eastern Ukraine, allowing Moscow to apply pressure on multiple fronts simultaneously.” The U.S. officials reported that the Russian military has recaptured some territory it seized in Kursk, a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine, this year, and Russia has attacked Ukrainian positions with missiles and artillery, but has not yet launched a large-scale offensive.
While the U.S. officials assessed the Kursk territorial rights, a point of contention in negotiations between Trump and Russia, as “pre-war preparedness,” Ukrainian officials told the New York Times that they “expect an attack involving North Korean troops in the coming days,” referring to “an attack involving North Korea within days.”
U.S. officials said the North Koreans would fight as light infantry without the help of armored vehicles, adding that it was unclear whether the North Korean government would allow its troops to conduct sustained operations in Ukraine or if it would only be for the Kursk offensive, according to Pentagon officials, and some U.S. officials believe that North Korea could order its troops to stop at the border while Russian forces advance deep into Ukraine.
A Ukrainian official told the Times that the North Koreans would be divided into two groups, an assault force and a support force, to provide security in the territory recaptured from Ukrainian forces.
George Barros, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, said the North Koreans were “well organized despite their lack of experience,” adding that “the one thing they can actually do better than the Russians is cohesion and discipline,” calling the North Koreans “an alternative pipeline.”
Rob Lee, a Russian military expert at the Philadelphia Institute for Foreign Policy Studies who recently returned from a visit to Ukraine, told the Times that “thousands more infantry could make a difference at Kursk. These soldiers are younger and in better physical condition than many Russian contract soldiers.”
Newsweek excluded “North Korea’s nuclear program” from the article on President Yoon under the title “Home Truths” and the subtitle “President Yoon’s Biggest Problem Is Not North Korea.”
Regarding the title, Newsweek stated, “Based on our interview with President Yoon, we decided on the title ‘President Yoon’s Biggest Problem Is Not North Korea’ because the biggest issue facing Korea that the world should know is internal social reforms such as the Four Major Reforms.”
President Yoon Seok-yeol excluded ‘North Korea’s nuclear weapons’ from ‘North Korea’s modernization as a threat to South Korea’s security’ in ‘Newsweek’ (15th edition) on the 8th, saying, “If Russia can provide North Korea with sensitive advanced military technology in return for North Korea’s dispatch of troops, and if North Korea applies the modern warfare experience it is acquiring from the Ukrainian War to its military of over 1 million soldiers, this will be a great threat to South Korea’s security.”
President Yoon specifically stated, “If North Korea’s Kim Jong-un decides to launch a nuclear attack on South Korea, it would be a very irrational act,” and “If they launch a nuclear attack, an immediate nuclear strike will be carried out based on the South Korea-U.S. nuclear-based security alliance,” changing his position from the previous ‘immediate destruction of the North Korean regime’ to ‘based on the South Korea-U.S. alliance.’
President Yoon continued, “We will take a corresponding step-by-step response according to the level of threat,” and “If the Ukrainian battlefield is downgraded due to the participation of North Korean troops, we can also give priority to considering measures that will help defend Ukraine,” stating it as a ‘pre-participation stage.’
At a press conference for his address to the nation on the 8th, immediately following the US presidential election, President Yoon declared a Trump-style model fascist system that absolutizes the power game through the “separation of responsibility and governance” by saying, “Let’s say I couldn’t do it, so what?”
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