North Korea has recently demanded an end to France, which has re-engaged in monitoring and monitoring North Korea’s illegal maritime commerce activities.
On the 6th, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency published an article by Ryu Gyeong-cheol, a researcher at the North Korea-Korea Association, who said, “France must stop taking actions that threaten the peace and security of the Northeast Asia region.” “France should cool its head from the Cold War fever and turn the tide.” “We have to face it directly,” he said.
Researcher Ryu said, “When we look at France’s actions in the past, when they made a fuss by launching warships and patrol planes into the waters around the Korean Peninsula, their decision is not that surprising.” He argued, “Their desperate situation of trying to raise their country’s status by always participating in the pressure movement against North Korea is only seen as shallow.”
North Korea researcher Ryu also mentioned, “France’s attempt to intensify tensions, which has been pushing military power into the waters surrounding the Korean Peninsula every year since 2019 under the pretext of implementing the UN Security Council’s ‘sanctions resolution’ on North Korea, poses a great risk.”
According to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense, the French Navy patrol aircraft ‘Falcon 200’ will carry out a mission to monitor North Korea’s violations of UN Security Council resolutions in waters around the Korean Peninsula, including the East Sea and East China Sea, for a month from the beginning of this month.
In 2017, the Security Council adopted a resolution banning the export of North Korean coal and limiting North Korea’s annual imports of petroleum products as sanctions to stop North Korea’s nuclear and missile development.
However, despite these sanctions, North Korea has been trading goods, including smuggling oil through ship-to-ship transfer on the high seas.
This is the fourth time since 2019 that the French ‘Falcon 200’ has been deployed for surveillance and surveillance activities against illegal transshipment by North Korean ships at sea.
In relation to this, North Korea researcher Ryu said, “When the military and political situation on the Korean Peninsula is getting closer to the outbreak of an imminent thermonuclear war due to the military hostilities of the United States and its followers, it is because of the complexity of the situation that even France is sticking its head in. “It adds to the risk,” he claimed.
He demanded, “France should not imitate anyone else and be attracted to old-fashioned ‘inclusive diplomacy,’ but should immediately stop its dangerous actions that destroy peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia before it is too late.”
Source: Donga
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