Experts have argued that if North Korea goes ahead with its seventh nuclear test, it will be a big mistake if the US government does not respond strongly as predicted.
Robert Carlin, a researcher at the Stimson Center, who served as the director of the Northeast Asian Bureau of the U.S. Department of State’s Intelligence and Investigation Agency, said this through a video seminar on the 21st (local time) of the “Biden Government’s Interim Evaluation of North Korean Nuclear Policy” hosted by the Stimson Center.
“We have to stop cornering ourselves,” said Researcher Carlin. If not, we would look very stupid.”
“I am also concerned about (the United States’) response when (North Korea’s) intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are launched into the Pacific Ocean,” he said. We need to be prepared,” he said.
He pointed out, “Is it necessary to keep all sanctions against North Korea intact at a time when China and Russia are already not sympathetic?
Researcher Carlin said, “If we want to make a big move like normalizing relations with North Korea, we have to recognize North Korea as a country. ” expected.
Former State Department special envoy for North Korea Robert Gallucci, who led the 1994 North American “Geneva Agreement,” also said, “At this point, we need to do something fundamentally different. Something else needs to be put on the table.”
Former special envoy Gallucci said, “The Biden administration’s North Korea policy varies from ‘A-’ to ‘D+’.” The idea that you can negotiate with North Korea through sanctions and pressure is wrong.”
He also pointed out that “strengthening triangular cooperation between South Korea, the US and Japan is the right direction, but the position that ‘there is no hostile intention’ towards North Korea is wrong” and “we need to be even stronger in our declarative posture.”
Former special envoy Carlucci said, “The diplomatic posture of the United States is also ‘D+’.” It makes no sense to keep making the same demands on the same person in the same way.”
He agreed with the need to strengthen extended deterrence, but regarding the issue of the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula by the United States, he said, “The United States does not need to redeploy nuclear weapons to build unreasonable trust on the Korean Peninsula.” It is also important,” he explained.
Former Assistant Secretary of State Susan Thornton said, “The Biden administration seems to have returned to ‘strategic patience’ in North Korea policy without saying so.” So to speak, I don’t think that will happen.”
“China is currently against all sorts of deterrence policies from the United States, and they actually have no interest in eliminating the North Korean challenge they face,” he said. , Currently, North Korea will be closely watching changes in US-China relations,” he added.
Source: Donga
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