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Foreign Minister Candidate Park Jin said, “The correct policy direction is to make North Korea realize that possessing nuclear weapons is against its own interests,” and military generals said that North Korea will “maintain and raise the absolute superiority of revolutionary armed forces in order to preemptively crush suppression.” and the United States revealed its 'option for dialogue' to Nor..

President Moon Jae-in spoke of “peaceful reunification” to North Korea, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed his dream of inter-Korean relations through “improvement and development” in a personal letter. The North Korean Central News Agency reported on the 22nd that Chairman Kim exchanged a personal letter with President Moon, saying, "The leaders of the north and the south believe tha..

The US approached the North Korean nuclear program as a collective security approach, and it seems that the Republican Trump system's "capitalization strategy" has been abandoned. US State Department spokeswoman Ned Price said on the 14th that North Korea is “actively engaged in diplomacy with its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region including South Korea and Japan.” “North Korea’s nuc..

The Director of US DNI has called China an “unparalleled priority” and “formidable challenge,” downgrading North Korea to a “traditional threat.” U.S. National Intelligence Director Avril Haines said in a video interview hosted by the American Bar Association on the 13th, "Everyone sees China as the biggest threat and calls it an 'unprecedented threat' and 'a threat to pursue.' It was reported o..

A mutual approach has emerged in which North Korea excludes the United States from its main enemy and the United States abolishes the KMC, an intelligence agency targeting North Korean operations. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on the 11th, "Our main enemy is the war itself, not South Korea or the United States, any particular country or force." The US CIA announced the launch of the China..

President Moon Jae-in said, “We have no reason to confront. Comparing regimes and national power has long since ceased to be meaningful, and now it is more important to prosper together.” In his congratulatory speech at the 15th World Korean Day commemoration ceremony, President Moon said, "Even if unification takes time, the South and the North can work together and get along well." On the 29th..

Negotiations on the denuclearization of North Korea seem to have been halted due to President Moon Jae-in's directive to actively promote the performance of strategic weapons, and the new weapons competition between South and North Korea. President Moon said, "The cruise missile also succeeded, which means that it is much faster than that of North Korea. By doing so, I hope that the people will ..

North Korea completely excluded South Korea business and national cooperation, which were mentioned in the Labor Party plenary meeting and the Chairman's New Year's address, from the 8th Congress and reduced it to a regional issue. Earlier, the North Korean Workers' Party plenary meeting removed the agenda for South Korea business at the end of December 2019, and Chairman Kim Jong-un's New Year'..

With regard to the establishment of the first secretary of the North Korean Workers' Party, South Korea predicted "Kim Yeo-jung", and US analysts divided into "standing member of the Politburo." Former Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok (Sejong Research Institute) said about the revision of the party rules at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party in January, "The position of 'first secretary' i..

Former CIA Korea Mission (KMC) center chief Andrew Kim, the organizer of the Singapore-North Korea summit, confirmed on the 20th as a CIA-led project. During a webinar videoconference at Harvard University's Belper Center on this day, KMC center chief Kim said that the June 2018 US-North Korea summit in Singapore was "a project led by the intelligence authorities," and "reflected the intentions ..