Last missile shot by North Korea cools ongoing diplomatic initiatives

Pyongyang confirmed having tested a new ballistic machine launched from a submarine. The UN Security Council should meet in the emergency on Wednesday.

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Diplomatic efforts to engage the dialogue with North Korea remain disturbed by Pyongyang’s repeated missile tests. The United Nations Security Council should meet in the urgency, Wednesday, October 20, at the request of the United States and the United Kingdom, to discuss the last shot – the eighth in less than two months – carried out the standby by North Korea.

The official North Korean agency subsequently confirmed to have tested a strategic marvel-soil gear (MSBS). From a nearby zone of Sinpo’s port, towards the East Sea (Japan Sea), the “new model” of MSBS “will greatly contribute to elevating the technological level of national defense and to improve operational capacity underwater “. This development gives Pyongyang a response capacity in the event of an attack on its military bases.

DIALOGUE needed

The US State Department has sentenced the firing that “contravenes several resolutions from the United Nations Security Council and is a threat to the region.” “This shot also highlights the urgent need for dialogue and diplomacy,” Nuanced Jen Psaki, the spokesman for the White House. A shared point of view by Seoul who sees the “need to quickly engage a dialogue with North Korea”.

It’s not a lack of trying, especially under the leadership of the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, who wishes to advance the interceorean dialogue by the end of his term, in March 2022. On 22 September, on 22 September, before the United Nations General Assembly, New York, to declare the official end of the War of Korea (1950-1953), conflict which is only interrupted by a simple armistice . For the leader, put an end to it must allow “irreversible progress towards the denuclearization and the opening of a total era”.

The north is restored, on October 4, the lines of communication with the South and said itself willing to adopt new measures to improve bilateral relations, provided that Seoul abandons his “double game” and its “hostile positioning”.

Armament race

The leader, Kim Jong-one, has certainly called on 11 October to strengthen the country’s military capacities to counter what he has described as “hostile forces”. While excluding “the abandonment of the right to self-defense”, Mr. Kim, however, stated that this strengthening was not specifically intended for South Korea: “The terrible history of the use of arms against compatriots should not be repeated. Our juror enemy is the war itself, and not South Korea, the United States or any other specific state or strength. “

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