President Moon Jae-in expressed his opposition to the Biden administration's post-Trump policy toward North Korea ahead of the Korea-US summit in late May.
President Moon said, "I hope that President Biden will become a historic president who has made real and irreversible progress for complete denuclearization and peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula." It would be a mistake to abolish the Singapore agreement in 2018.”
President Moon revealed this in an interview with the New York Times (NYT) on the 16th, and the content released on the 21st is the '2021 Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Implementation Report' released by the US State Department on the 19th. Conflicting head-on with the announcement of a policy amendment to “Denuclearization (FFVD)”.
The Trump administration requested the US media to oppose the revision of the'CVID' (complete, verifiable and irreversible abolition), which the administration jointly applied with the Moon Jae-in administration, to the “final and fully verified denuclearization of North Korea (FFVD)”. It became.
In an interview with the Biden administration, President Moon said, "If relations between the superpowers of (US-China) deteriorate, all negotiations for denuclearization (the Korean peninsula) could be undermined." As a previous special reporter Moon Jeong-in said in the Asahi Newspaper on the 11th, “As the US-China confrontation intensifies, the choice of Korea is limited, so I have to move in the direction of mitigating the confrontation. It seems to have followed what he said, "I call this a transcendent diplomacy."
"It is difficult to guarantee peace on the Korean peninsula if Korea is on the side of the United States in the midst of the US-China conflict," said Moon Jeong-in, chairman of the Sejong Institute (former security advisory). It will be difficult to guarantee peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula, including North Korea.”
Moon Jeon's Security Bulletin said in an interview, “If South Korea is on the side of the United States, it becomes difficult to guarantee peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula, including North Korea. China will focus on North Korea’s support and Russia will strengthen its alliance. “The South Korean government is in a position that it is difficult to participate in regional councils that exclude certain countries.” Opposition to North Korea's policy', announced an attempt to establish economic cooperation between Russia and North Korea.
President Moon said, "I received a report of the supply and demand situation of the corona vaccine recently and ordered to check the possibility of introducing the Russian corona vaccine'Sputnik V'," SBS reported on the 21st.
An official from the Blue House said, "President Moon ordered the overall situation such as Sputnik V vaccination cases from other countries, side effects, application method and quantity, etc. to be checked." I told SBS.