Trump's 2nd U.S.-North Korea relationship... more likely to be a "confrontation" than a "dialogue."

[Anchor]
Former U.S. President Trump won the presidential election, and there were prospects for resuming dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea, but now it is unclear.

Both the U.S. and North Korea seem to be heading toward a confrontation rather than dialogue. There is a possibility that the next U.S. government's policy direction on the Ukraine war, which North Korea is also participating in, will be a variable.

Reporter Hong Sun-ki reports.

[Reporter]
It is true that former U.S. President Trump, who has experience in the U.S.-North Korea summit, won the presidential election, raising expectations for the resumption of U.S.-North Korea dialogue.

However, the atmosphere has changed with the appointment of ultra-hard-liners to the secretary of state and national security adviser in the second Trump administration.

North Korea, which has been silent since the U.S. presidential election, has also begun to say that there is nothing to expect from the Trump administration, and expectations for "dialogue" are cooling down.

[Chosun Central Television (last 18th): (Chairman Kim Jong-un) revealed the threatening nature of anti-Republic military confrontation between the U.S. and puppet South Korea, which raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula to the worst in history....]

Chairman Kim Jong-un has done everything he can through negotiations with the United States, but he also directly emphasized that there is nothing more to negotiate with the United States, saying that all that was left was hostility.

Another obstacle to U.S.-North Korea relations is that North Korea is sending troops to the war in Ukraine, which Trump wants to end as soon as possible.

[Donald Trump / U.S. President-elect (last 16th): We will work hard on Russia and Ukraine issues. It has to stop. Russia and Ukraine (war) must stop.]

However, some analysts say that North Korea's intention to break its silence and launch an offensive against the U.S. rather left open the possibility of negotiations.

It is intended to highlight that North Korea's military power has become stronger than during the first Trump period and is strengthening further with Russia on its back.

[Yang Moo-jin, President of North Korean Graduate University: On the other hand, it seems that Trump's response to this strong and strong situation is not denuclearization negotiations as in the past, but rather nuclear disarmament negotiations.]

Our government, however, says that nuclear disarmament negotiations that tolerate nuclear weapons, not denuclearization, are absolutely unacceptable.

It is unlikely that North Korea, which intends to increase its nuclear weapons indefinitely, will knock on the denuclearization negotiations first, but there is still room for the next Trump administration's policy direction to end the war in Ukraine, which North Korea is also participating in.

This is YTN Hong Seon-gi.



Video editing Seo Young-mi

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