North Korea announced the continuation of negotiations to the United States and notified South Korea to block negotiations.
North Korean Vice President Kim Yeo-jeong, who led the CoverAction negotiations in Trump's US administration, said, “I would like to give a word of advice to the new US administration. He said that it would be better not to create a job that would be sluggish from the beginning, saying that it would be a wish to sleep for the next four years, while responding to the negotiations, saying, “Fatherland Peace and Unification Committee(FP&UC), a dialogue organization with South Korea that has no reason to exist in the current situation. It became compelling to put the issue of arranging the Peace and Unification Committee on the schedule. We are reviewing the issue of eliminating the Kumgangsan International Tourism Bureau and other related organizations as there is no need for any cooperation or exchanges with the South Korean authorities, which treat us as enemies,” responding to the OvertAction of Biden's Democratic Party administration. .
On the 16th, the first vice president of the Labor Party, Kim Yeo-jeong, condemned the ROK-US joint drill and declared it publicly through the Labor Newspaper, “It will not be easy to come back three years ago.” The Biden administration, including the North Korean Embassy in New York, began in mid-February. North Korea's attempted contact through various channels was disclosed to the media on the 13th, and the White House immediately confirmed it and converted it into an open transaction.
The Trump administration, led by Secretary of State Pumpeio, who was the head of the CIA at the beginning, led the Korea Mission Center (KMC), an organization outside the CIA, in South Korea, and the Blue House National Intelligence Service of the Moon Jae-in administration dealt with Deputy Chief Kim Yeo-jeong and Fatherland Peace and Unification Committee(FP&UC), in a closed deal with North Korea.
Mr. Kim’s announcement in the Labor Newspaper was announced by White House spokesman Jen Saki at a briefing on the 15th, saying, “I have tried to contact North Korea through various channels since President Biden took office, but so far I have not received any answers.”
"Of course, diplomacy is always our goal," he said. "Our goal is to reduce the risk of heightening (tension)."
Saki spokesman briefing related to media reports on the 13th that there was an attempt to contact North Korea, “We can confirm that we have attempted contact. As always, we clearly have a lot of channels in a series that we can try to contact,” he said. “But so far, we haven't gotten any answers.”
“We are focusing on listening to opinions from many former government officials who have been involved in North Korea policy, including some of the previous government. (Omitted) I think all of you can expect that our involvement with local partners and alliances will continue to expand,” he said. “Of course, diplomacy is always our goal.”
On a joint visit by the U.S. Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, after a series of talks between Korea and Japan on the 15th and 18th, prior to the departing of the joint meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yang Jietsu and Wang Yi, Reuters quoted an anonymous high-ranking official on the 13th. There were attempts to contact the North Korean government through various channels, including the North Korean Representative to the United Nations).” The State Department confirmed this report anonymously on this day, showing a difference from the secret transaction led by the Republican Trump administration's intelligence agency.
The ROK-US joint training criticized by Vice President Kim Yeo-jeong's talk on the early morning of the 16th began on the 8th, and Mr. Kim's talk of slander toward South Korea has been absent for two months since the end of the Trump administration's term of office on January 12th.