Given that North Korea’s 7th nuclear test is expected to be imminent, it is expected that for a month in June, each country will engage in an all-defense diplomatic battle over issues such as the Korean Peninsula.
It is expected that South Korea, the United States, and Japan will immediately begin work to further strengthen cooperation with North Korea in the international community, starting with the consultations with the chief representatives of North Korea, the United States and Japan on the 3rd.
In the midst of this, North Korea is expected to preside over the first plenary session on the 2nd (local time) as the presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament (CD) this month, drawing attention to the external message that will come through this. Also noteworthy is the progress of China and Russia, which rejected a resolution on additional sanctions once morest North Korea at the UN Security Council meeting on the 26th of last month.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the like on the 2nd, Kim Geon, head of the Korean Peninsula Peace Relations Headquarters, Sung Kim, special representative for North Korea at the U.S. State Department, and Takehiro Funakoshi, director of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held talks in Seoul on the 3rd in Seoul on the 3rd. It also evaluates the recent situation on the Korean Peninsula and discusses future responses to North Korea’s provocations, such as the successive launch of ballistic missiles.
In this regard, the U.S. State Department stated that during this visit to South Korea and trilateral consultations, Kim said, “We will seek dialogue with North Korea and continue to cooperate with the international community to combat North Korea’s illegal development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missiles. We will reaffirm our commitment to the United States.”
Next week, First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori are also scheduled to meet in Seoul next week.
In addition, on the occasion of the Asian Security Conference (Shangri-La Dialogue) to be held in Singapore on the 10th and 12th of this month, it is expected that the defense ministers of the Republic of Korea, the United States and Japan will also hold a defense ministerial meeting attended by Defense Minister Lee Jong-seop, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi. .
Inside and outside the government, the three countries are expected to materialize measures to strengthen trilateral security cooperation in response to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats through such meetings at various levels.
The chain of contact between South Korean, US and Japanese officials is expected to lead to the trilateral summit, with Foreign Minister Park Jin’s visit to the US and Japan expected in the middle of this month and the NATO summit to be held in Madrid, Spain on the 29th-30th. lots of observations
North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ‘Hwasong-17’ .[AvailableonlyinKoreaRedistributionprohibitedDBprohibitedPyongyangRodongSinmun=News1[국내에서만사용가능재배포금지DB금지평양노동신문=뉴스1In addition, the South Korean government plans to hold a South Korea-China defense ministers’ meeting with China, North Korea’s most important ally, on the occasion of the Shangri-La Dialogue next week. However, the general view of related experts is that there will be limitations in discussing the so-called “constructive role” of ‘using China’s power to deter North Korea’s provocations’.
China is currently competing for hegemony with the United States in almost every field, including economy, diplomacy, military, and security, and this is because “there is a high possibility that the North Korean issue will be used as a means of pressure on the United States.”
Russia also has an aspect of ‘on the sidelines’ of the North Korean issue as conflicts with Western countries such as the United States have increased since the start of the armed invasion of Ukraine in February.
For this reason, experts believe that “in the mid- to long-term, the close structure between the three countries will be consolidated due to regional security threats such as North Korea and China, and there is a high possibility that North Korea will respond more unitedly with China and Russia.” This means that as time goes by, the new Cold War composition between Korea, the United States, Japan and North Korea, China and Russia will become more prominent.
In the midst of this, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a position that, regarding North Korea’s appointment as the presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament, “is in accordance with the rules of procedure of the Conference on Disarmament, which states that country names are taken in alphabetical order, and that the Korean government does not attach any special meaning to itself.”
However, the State Department said that “the representative of the United States to all official and unofficial disarmament conferences presided over by North Korea will be of the ambassador level or lower,” Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported. This means that key US government figures will not attend meetings hosted by North Korea.
However, the State Department said it was “important for the United States to remain engaged in the disarmament conference to encourage its members to agree to begin negotiations on a verifiable fissile material ban treaty.”
(Seoul = News 1)
