USA regulates crisis in Korean peninsula!

 

 USA regulates crisis in Korean peninsula!

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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North Korea is keen to resolve the crisis in the region by talking with the South Africa but USA is eager to further stain the relations between the North and South so that the Korean peninsula remains tensed.

North Korea continues to reintegrate that USA and its allies cannot bully it and the country has got secured defense capabilities.

Resolution of Korean crisis, alike any other region like Mideast and South Asia depends entirely on USA because it controls South Korea and Japan. Dictator Trump is set to complicate international relations to suit its arms sales.

Olympics diplomacy

North Korean President Kim Jong Un said that the USA should be aware that his country’s nuclear forces are now a reality, it is North Korea’s security and not a threat to anyone.  Kim in fact struck a conciliatory tone in his New Year’s address, wishing success for the Winter Olympics set to begin in South Korea in February and suggesting the North may send a delegation to participate. “The Winter Olympic Games that will be held soon in the South will be a good opportunity to display the status of the Korean nation and we sincerely wish that the event will be held with good results,” he said.

Kim, wearing a Western-style gray suit and tie, said in his customary annual address that his country had achieved the historic feat of completing its nuclear forces and added that he has a nuclear button on his desk. “The USA should know that the button for nuclear weapons is on my table,” he said during the speech, as reported by The Associated Press. “The entire area of the US mainland is within our nuclear strike range.  The USA can never start a war against me and our country,” Kim said.

However, Kim called for improved relations with the South, an idea mentioned in speeches more often than it is met. He said the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics would be a good opportunity to showcase the status of the Korean nation. He also said the two Koreas could meet urgently to discuss the North sending a delegation.

The office of South Korea President Moon Jae-in said the successful hosting of the Pyeongchang Olympics would contribute to peace and harmony not only on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia, but in the entire world.

The New Year’s address is an annual event in North Korea and is watched closely for indications of the direction and priorities Kim may adopt in the year ahead. This year’s speech was seen as particularly important because of the high tensions over Pyongyang’s frequent missile launches and its nuclear test in 2017. The tests were the focus of fiery verbal exchanges between North Korea and President Donald Trump, who has derisively called Kim “little rocket man.” Kim also stressed North Korea’s economic achievements during the speech, and noted the importance of improving the nation’s standard of living.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned USA against any misadventure against his country or people. Pyongyang’s frequent missile launches in 2017, along with its sixth nuclear test, have ratcheted up tensions with the super power. The tests were the focus of fiery back-and-forth arguments between North Korea and President Donald Trump, who has called Kim “Little Rocket Man.” When asked for a response Sunday night, Trump said simply, “We’ll see, we’ll see.”

South Korea welcomed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s proposal to open a dialogue between the two nations in an effort to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of sending North Korean athletes to the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, which will be held in Pyeongchang in February.”The successful launch of the games will contribute to stability not only on the Korean Peninsula but also in East Asia and the rest of the world.”

The South Korea spokesman emphasized that Moon is open to talks without preconditions but also pledged to work with other world leaders to address concerns about the North’s nuclear weapons program. The potential for diplomatic discussions between the North and South strongly contrasts with ongoing hostility between Kim and Trump to find the resolution to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and bring peace.

The comments came in response to Kim’s annual New Year’s Day speech: “We sincerely hope that the South will successfully host the Olympics,” Kim said, while also expressing interest in sending athletes to the games next month. “We’re willing to take necessary steps including sending our delegation, and for this, the authorities from the North and South could urgently meet.” Beyond the upcoming athletic competition, “it’s about time that the North and the South sit down and seriously discuss how to improve inter-Korean relations by ourselves and dramatically open up,” Kim said. “Above all, we must ease the acute military tensions between the North and the South,” he concluded.

Desire and doubt

Alongside Kim’s expressed desire for diplomatic talks with Seoul, the North Korean leader reiterated his commitment to continuing his nation’s nuclear weapons program amid ongoing provocations from US dictator Donald Trump’s childish warning.

Yun Duk-min, a former chancellor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, noted in an interview that talks between the North and South could complicate the US-South Korea alliance, and sustainable peace on a broader scale would be difficult to achieve without US cooperation because USA controls the world and regulates world politics and policies. .

Although US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has expressed a desire to engage in direct talks with North Korea, repeated statements from the White House—and the president himself—have consistently undermined such efforts by walking back Tillerson’s remarks and denouncing the potential for a diplomatic solution. Trump, like his Zionist ally Netanyahu, is not for world peace and he likes to accelerate terror wars and further strain relations with North Korea and Iran.

It is not easy win a fight against USA in any form. “After getting nowhere with the Americans, North Korea is now trying to start talks with South Korea first, and then use that as a channel to start dialogue with the USA.

With South Korea also participating in the international sanctions campaign, it’s not easy for Moon to come forward and accept it before North Korea shows sincerity with denuclearization. Inter-Korean relations will start to improve more fundamentally only if there’s a change in the US-North Korea dynamics”

A US ban on travel by Americans to North Korea comes into effect, a step announced after the death of a US student shortly after his release from a 15-year prison sentence in the country, where three other Americans are still detained.

US bombers drill

Meanwhile, South Korean and Japanese jets joined exercises with two supersonic US- B-1B bombers above and near the Korean peninsula on Thursday, two days after North Korea sharply raised tension by firing a missile over Japan. The drills, involving four US stealth F-35B jets as well as South Korean and Japanese fighter jets, came at the end of annual US-South Korea military exercises focused mainly on computer simulations. “North Korea’s actions are a threat to our allies, partners and homeland, and their destabilizing actions will be met accordingly,” justified General Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy. “This complex mission clearly demonstrates our solidarity with our allies and underscores the broadening cooperation to defend against this common regional threat.”

North Korea has been working to develop a defensive nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the United States and has recently threatened to land missiles near the US Pacific territory of Guam.  North Korea, which sees the exercises as preparations for invasion, retaliated, raised the stakes in its stand-off with the USA and its allies by firing an intermediate-range missile over Japan. Its official news agency, KCNA, denounced the military drills in traditionally robust fashion, calling them “the rash act of those taken aback” by the missile test, which it described as “the first military operation in the Pacific.”

Donald Trump, who has warned that the US military is “locked and loaded” in case of North Korean provocation, reacted angrily to the latest missile test, declaring that “talking is not the answer” to resolving the crisis over North Korea’s weapons programs. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was quick to stress that a diplomatic solution remained possible, but he told reporters he agreed with Trump that Washington “should not be talking right now to a nation that is firing missiles over the top of Japan, an ally.”

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders reiterated at a regular briefing that all options – diplomatic, economic and military – remained on the table. Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera spoke to Mattis by telephone and agreed to keep putting pressure on North Korea in a “visible” form, Japan’s defense ministry said. Japanese Prime Shinzo Abe said he and visiting British PM Theresa May agreed to urge China, North Korea’s lone major ally, to do more to rein in North Korea. May and Abe also discussed the possibility of adopting a new U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea.

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the situation on the peninsula was serious. “The current tense situation on the peninsula isn’t a screenplay or a video game,” she told reporters. “It’s real, and is an immense and serious issue that directly involves the safety of people from both the north and south of the peninsula, as well as peace and stability of the entire region.”

A close ally of both Russia and North Korea, China repeated a call on for restraint by all parties. China would never allow war or chaos on the Korean peninsula, its doorstep, and military means were not an option. China strongly demands all sides to exercise restraint and remain calm and not do anything to worsen tensions. Chinese forces were maintaining a normal state of alert along the North Korean border.

Japan has been urging Washington to propose new Security Council sanctions, which diplomats said could target North Korean laborers working abroad, oil supplies and textile exports. However, diplomats expect resistance from Russia and fellow veto-wielding power China, particularly given that new measures were only announced on Aug. 5 after North Korea tested its first two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July.

The 15-member UN Security Council did not mention about joint military exercises under US lead but condemned the firing of the missile over Japan as “outrageous” and demanded that North Korea halt its weapons programs. But the US-drafted statement did not threaten new sanctions.

The North and the South should no longer do anything that would aggravate the situation, and must exert efforts to ease military tensions and create a peaceful environment.