The Korean peninsula enters a new turbulence zone showed by the shot, Thursday, March 24, by the North Korea of an intercontinental ballistic missile that has become damaged in the sea of Japan.
No direct reporting with the war in Ukraine, the ballistic missile shot, Thursday, March 24, by North Korea is none the less a collateral effect. While President Joe Biden was going to meet, the same day, the US allies in Brussels, this shot is clearly a challenge from Pyongyang. It is considered by the White House as “an insolent violation of multiple resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and unnecessarily increases the tensions”.
Since the beginning of the year, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) shot a dozen missiles, more than all year round 2021. That of March 24 could be a hwasong-17, nicknamed “missile Monster “by military analysts, whose scope can reach 15,000 kilometers.
Russia and North Korea now share the same spell of pairs from the international scene sanctioned by the United States and their allies. The DPRK is one of five countries (with Russia, Belarus, Eritrea and Syria) to vote against the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly condemning the Russian aggression of Ukraine. It can hope that Russia will not feel more related by the UN resolutions and will put its veto to any resolution of the Security Council calling for new sanctions as a result of provocations on its part. Which gives it increased margin of maneuver.
Even without this insurance, Pyongyang was determined to continue strengthening his deterrent, despite the calls from Washington and Seoul to the recovery of talks. North Korean leaders believe that dialogue is irrelevant until the United States has renounced their “hostile attitude” (ie sanctions). In January, Kim Jong-one announced to his population that she had to “prepare for a long-term confrontation with the American imperialists”.
Red tension tensions
The election, March 9, to the presidency of the South Korea of the right candidate, Yoon Seok-Youll, who hastened to declare that the DPRK was the “main enemy” of his country, has Clearly marked a break with the policy of appeasement of its predecessor moon jae-in. Any attempt at weighting on the part of Seoul is now excluded, a renewed tension in the peninsula seems engaged.
Several factors intervene in the new climb to the North Korea niche. First, the year 2022 is heavy with symbols: it marks the ten years in the power of the Jong-one leader and the 110 anniversary, on April 15, of the birth of the “Father of The Nation “, Kim Il-Sung (1912-1994).
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