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On the 24th, North Korea announced its first official position on the declaration of an end to the war and its hostile policy in a statement by its foreign minister. President Moon Jae-in said in an in-flight interview on his return home that "the United States and China have already agreed to it." "The issue of denuclearization has been added to the issue of how to link the end-of-war declarati..

In a speech to the United Nations on the 21st, President Moon Jae-in demanded that the declaration of an end to the war be given priority, saying, "When a declaration of an end to the war is achieved, complete peace can begin with irreversible progress in denuclearization." In a speech to the United Nations earlier, US President Joe Biden said, "We are pursuing serious and sustained diplomacy in..

In East Asia, where power-based diplomacy is concentrated, combined training and weapons expansion have taken a toll, and South Korea has made a sharp turn in favor of increasing arms. The U.S. State Department announced on the 5th that it would sell $750 million of arms to Taiwan, including self-propelled artillery, in a statement to Congress, saying, "This arms sale will enhance Taiwan's abili..

The new U.S. State Department's new policy toward North Korea has revealed a method of tying the Moon Jae-in system of arms augmentation into a triangular alliance between South Korea, the US and Japan, coordinating North Korea policy with China and “coordination” with South Korea. The Biden administration seems to have adopted direct negotiations with China after the Trump regime and the Moon J..

The parallels between South Korea and the U.S. have been reconfirmed, with President Moon Jae-in speaking of “efforts to resume dialogue with North Korea” and Deputy Secretary of State Sherman “discussing in-depth North Korea policy with the Chinese government” respectively. At the Blue House on the 22nd, President Moon asked Deputy Minister Sherman to make efforts to resume US-DPRK dialogue, re..

It appears that the U.S. and China's representatives to North Korea "agreed" on a separate approach to denuclearization and inter-Korean reconciliation during their first contact. The two governments simultaneously announced a phone call between the US Representative for North Korea Sung Kim and China's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs Liu Xiaoming on the 6th, and the Chinese ..