The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, landed Thursday in Japan, the last stop on his controversial tour in Asia. Previously, he visited South Korea, where rumors spread that the legislator was involved the fortified border with North Korea (ZDM).

In Japan, 82-year-old Pelosi will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday, according to state television NHK.

Yes, OK it is not known when Pelosi visited the borderone of the hottest areas on the planet between two countries still at war (no photos of the visit have been released), some media have indicated that the legislator has gone to the demilitarized zone.

According to the EFE agency, during his stay in South Korea, Pelosi visited the village of Panmunjomalso known as the Joint Security Zone at the inter-Korean border, before boarding a plane from Osan base (south of Seoul) around 20:15 (11:35 GMT) bound for Japan.

His visit to the Security Zone meant the highest profile of an American politician from the one made in 2019 by former President Donald Trump, who met the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un there.

Throughout the day there was a strong rumor that Pelosi would visit the area, but never officially confirmed. The same thing happened with his trip to Taiwan, which was only confirmed when Pelosi’s plane landed in Taipei on Tuesday night.

Information about Pelosi’s possible visit to Panmunjon was first provided by the AFP news agency, which quoted an unidentified South Korean official. But then there was no more information about it. The French agency could not later confirm whether Pelosi had actually traveled.

With his alleged visit, Pelosi chose to send a dissuasive message from South Korea to Pyongyang in the face of the development of its weapons, in the midst of a crisis between Washington and Beijing due to his previous visit to Taiwan, EFE speculated.

During his visit on Thursday, which focused on security cooperation issues between the United States and South Korea, Pelosi met with his South Korean counterpart, Kim Jin-pyo; he had a telephone conversation with the president of the country, Yoon Suk-yeol, but she did not meet him personallyand visited the inter-Korean demilitarized border.

“Powerful and widespread dissuasion”

Pelosi and his South Korean counterpart pledged to maintain “the efforts of both governments for denuclearization and peace through international cooperation and diplomatic dialogue”, based on “a powerful and widespread deterrent” against Pyongyang, they indicated in a joint statement.

Both also expressed their “concern over the serious situation in which the degree of threat from North Korea is increasing“, referring to the record number of missile launches carried out by Pyongyang this year and indicates that a new nuclear test by the regime could take place imminent.

The South Korean president said along the same lines that Pelosi’s visit is “a sign of deterrence by South Korea and the United States against North Korea,” according to his spokesman.

Yoon limited his contacts with Pelosi to the phone conversation of about 40 minutes, because the South Korean president was on vacationaccording to the South Korean executive.

Local media, however, have speculated the possibility that the president avoided meeting with Pelosi so as not to further heat the atmosphere with China, after the visit of the president of Congress to Taiwan, the highest level of American politician in 25 years, has unleashed the wrath of Beijing.

The Asian giant began this Thursday – less than 24 hours after Pelosi’s visit to the island considered by Beijing to be a rebel province in its territory – military maneuvers that included the launch of long-range missiles around Taiwan, which it considers “a blockade. “and a” violation of their rights “.

Protests in North Korea

The regime led by Kim Jong-un accused the United States this Thursday of having aa “confrontational” position. for claiming that Pyongyang represents “a threat” due to its nuclear program, through a statement issued by its permanent representation before the United Nations.

The denuclearization negotiations between Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington are in neutral since the failed 2019 Hanoi summit between Trump and Kim, which failed to reach an agreement on concessions from the North and the lifting of sanctions imposed on the regime for its missile and atomic development programs.

The North also criticized Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, calling it a “reckless interference.” in the internal affairs of another country “, thus supporting the position of China, the main ally of the hermetic regime.

“The current situation shows that unscrupulous US interference in home affairs and intentional political and military provocations are the main cause of the damage to peace and security in the region,” a spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry said. collected by the KCNA news agency.

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