"A very serious problem"...The risk of a preemptive attack contained in Kim Jong Un's speech [Y transcript]

■ Host: Kim Sun-young Anchor
■ Starring: Park Won-gon, Professor of North Korean Studies at Ewha Womans University

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◇Anchor> This was quite impressive in Kim Jong-un's speech not too long ago. I think it's quite unusual to use the expression "We honestly have no intention of attacking the Republic of Korea," but I also used this expression. I said that it's creepy to even be conscious. What do you think it contains?

◆Park Won-gon> If you look at this except for this part, you should read that Kim Jong-un has no intention of attacking South Korea. But overall, in a pretty long speech, I said it when I went to Kim Jong-il General Military School, but if you put it all together, you shouldn't read it like that. I think it could be a very misreading. What Kim Jong-un said right after that is... But the problem is touching us all the time. But touching means the deterrence of North Korea that South Korea and the U.S. have, right?

It's like the joint exercises that we're doing and the development of strategic assets, and we're really trying to contain North Korea for defensive purposes, which North Korea can call an armed attack on itself. I'm not just saying this, but Kim Jong-un has said it very specifically several times. Most recently, they gave a public speech on February 9th on the Day of the Union, and the expression "Emergency" was added.Ma says that in case of emergency, North Korea's national policy and the best goal of the country is to occupy the territory of the Republic of Korea by force. If you look at the context before and after, the concept of an emergency is very ambiguous.The most representative of

is that on April 25, 2022, we call it the 4.25 Doctrine, and Kim Jong-un's speech said that North Korea's nuclear weapons have two goals. One is military from a defensive goal, and the second is that it can be used in case of infringement of North Korea's national interests. I talked about that in January this year. But the problem is that the national interest is very broad, and in addition, Kim Jong-un has said that he can preemptively attack nuclear weapons.

Put it all together, you don't have any intention of attacking Korea? It's a very serious problem to read it like that. North Korea's very aggressive nuclear doctrine is that it can be used arbitrarily and artificially at any time according to their needs. I think it has been confirmed countless times.

If you look at the entire contents of the ◇ Anchor> speech, you pointed out that there are much more mentioning the cause of the attack. In any case, Kim Jong-un even used the expression, "South Korea is creepy," and if there is a North Korea that continues to emphasize the two hostile countries now, we seem to have quite different texture. President Yoon Suk Yeol said that unification would be a blessing to North Koreans. Are the two Koreas going in a very different direction?

◆Park Won-gon> We need to think carefully about the main audience because this is what President Yoon said in Singapore. I think I should read both the front and back because I participated in ASEAN and talked about it abroad rather than North Korea or South Korea. What President Yoon said is that if a free and open Korean Peninsula is realized, it will greatly expand the value of freedom, which will help security and peace not only on the Korean Peninsula but also the entire Indo-Pacific region. I don't see a big problem with this expression itself.

But the problem is that we're going to continue to pursue unification, especially through the August 15 reunification doctrine, and North Korea talked about two hostile states, which widened the gap. However, in the current situation, what North Korea says is just a state theory, but what we should think about is not just a two-state theory. There is a saying that North Korea's main purpose is to use force to occupy all of South Korea's territory, as I said, the theory of hostile and warring states.

So, some people who speak of the two national theories in Korea know the content well, but the meaning is to recognize the reality of both sides first and then coexist. On top of that, they say let's lead peace and unify in the end, but they don't recognize the reality of it, but because North Korea is saying that it will use such aggressive, in a way, force to occupy it, not recognizing the reality of South Korea.

◇ Anchor> It's not peaceful coexistence?

◆Park Won-gon> Not at all. That's why, in the current situation, and moreover, with Kim Jong-un constantly talking like this, I think it's a very serious problem for us to accept the two-state theory.

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: Lee Sun Digital News Team Editor

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