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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will deliver a commemorative speech on the 10th of last month to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Labor Party (pictured left). US President-elect Joe Biden is confident of victory as he watches the results of the count in Wellmington, Delaware, on the 4th when he was a candidate. Pyongyang = Labor News, Washington = AFP Yonhap News
North Korea’s face when it greets 46th President-elect Joe Biden who defeated President Donald Trump in the US presidential election looks complicated. Unlike President Trump, who bragged about ‘bromance’ with the Chairman of the State Council, Kim Jong-un and even held the North American summit, he had a brave relationship with Biden-elect, as “the gangster” and “The crazy dog”. However, North Korea has recently shown a cautious appearance, refraining from criticizing Biden-elect. It reads like a heart to watch the strategy for North Korea proposed by the Biden administration and determine the direction of North Korea’s action.
“Dictator” vs “Crazy dog”
The relationship between Biden-elect and President Kim Jong-un is currently stagnant. Biden-elect referred to President Kim as a “bad ship” in a television election advertisement in November last year, and North Korea immediately repelled that “a mad dog like Biden should be hit with a stick” through a Comment from the Central News Agency Chosun. Furthermore, North Korea criticized Biden as “putting an end to insanity” and “an old maniac with a desire to seize power.” Regardless of this, President-elect Biden criticized President Trump’s policy toward North Korea, referring to President Kim as a “dictator” or “tyrant” during this year’s presidential campaign.
However, it was unexpectedly North Korea that pulled out of ‘Last End Daejeon’ first. At the time of the last television debate for the US presidential candidate on the 22nd of last month, Biden-elect called President Kim a “bully,” but North Korea has shown no reaction to date. Considering the characteristics of the North Korean system that values the dignity of the supreme leader, it is an “extraordinary silence.” From the North Korean point of view, it is interpreted that it was determined that Biden-elect should refrain from raising the level of tension between the two sides before starting the race.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the grave of People’s Army soldiers in Hoechang-gun, South Pyongan province, on 22nd last month to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Army in the Korean War. Pyongyang = Chosun Central TV Yonhap News
Silent North Korea … Biden’s Election Report Suspected
North Korea has shown little reaction to the US presidential election until the 8th, when Biden-elect declared victory. Through an editorial on the 8th, the labor newspaper published a message that showed its military might, saying: “Our Republic is a world-class military power with a strong deterrent to war.”
The North Korean authorities are expected to be currently struggling with the level of information related to Biden’s election. When President George W. Bush was elected in 2000, President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, and President Trump in 2016, he reported the results of the United States presidential elections through state media with a delay of 2 to 4 days, respectively. However, there was a big difference in the tone of the report depending on the expectation that dialogue with the United States would be possible. When President Obama was elected, the North Korean media expressed their expectation by calling him “the candidate who defeated the Republican Party,” but did not comment at all when he was reelected. This is because an improvement in relations with the United States was not expected because the North Koreans were strongly opposed to President Obama’s policy of “strategic patience.”
United States President-elect Joe Biden is speaking at the podium in Wilmington, Delaware, on the 5th (local time) when he was a candidate. AP = Yonhap News
Resume dialogue or strategic provocation?
Considering the history of North Korea’s strategic provocation during the last period of the US power shift, there is no question that it could launch a strategic provocation in January and February next year. Yet experts are of the common opinion that North Korea is unlikely to launch an immediate provocation just because the US president has changed. Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the North Korean Graduate School, said: “If North Korea proceeds with the provocation first, it will cut the threads of the dialogue between the North and the United States promised by North Korean leaders at the North Korean Summit. Singapore and will bring the ‘strategic patience’ of the Obama era, a painful memory of North Korea Analyzed It can be seen in this context that North Korea stopped accusing Biden and entered the watchdog mode.
However, if the Biden administration’s policy toward North Korea flows in a similar fashion to the Obama administration’s strategic patience, North Korea is likely to become sound policy. In particular, if the Biden administration declares the abolition of the ‘Singapore-North Korea Joint Declaration’, which is the legacy of President Trump’s policy towards North Korea, North Korea may also declare the destruction of the missile moratorium. nuclear (test suspension) and resume the experiment. Im-chul, a professor at Kyungnam University’s Far East Research Institute, said: “Our government must persuade Biden to respect and show the will to implement the agreement between the United States and North America.” It is important to work together, ”he advised.
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