After her controversial stopover in Taiwan, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives now shows her support for the South Korean government against the Pyongyang regime
After her controversial visit to Taiwan, the Speaker of the United States Congress, Nancy Pelosi, has arrived in Seoul, where she has guaranteed United States support for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. The Democratic representative released a joint statement with South Korean parliament president Kim Jin-pyo, in which both express “concern” about “the heightened level of threat from” their northern neighbour. Building on a strong and widespread deterrent against North Korea that the people can recognize, we agree to support the efforts of both governments for denuclearization and peace through international cooperation and diplomatic dialogue.
Seoul is Pelosi’s fourth stop on her Asian tour. He has previously met with various authorities from Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan; a stop the latter whose consequences have a substantial scope. Aside from China’s angry response and the military maneuvers taking place around the island between this Thursday and Sunday, the visit has had other domestic repercussions and satisfied the Republican opposition more than President Joe Biden’s administration. Some Democratic congressmen and analysts have even asked the White House to abandon its traditional “strategic ambiguity” in the Sino-Taiwanese conflict and step up its crackdown on Beijing in light of Russia’s example with Ukraine.
And this is despite Biden emerging as a persistent critic of the Xi Jinping regime and an increasingly serious force as a competitor to US economic and commercial interests. National Security Council adviser Jack Kirby responded to reporters last night that Pelosi had a perfect “right” to visit Taipei, but with a particular nuance: “The trip was her decision and Congress is an independent branch of government”.
The stopover in Seoul also has an edge-walking component. Tension in the peninsula has grown with the same intensity in recent months as the confrontation between the Pyongyang government and the White House. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un warned on July 28 that his country is ready to “mobilize” the “absolute power” of its “nuclear deterrent forces” if a scenario of “military confrontation with the United States” is reached. ». Small joke, except for the rhetorical accent of the message. The North Korean military has multiplied its ballistic missile tests, launching five of them in an unprecedented exercise on June 5, just after the US and South Korea ended military exercises. Neighbors to the north have expressed anger at these types of combined drills, considering them “invasion” rehearsals.
Pelosi took advantage of her first meetings in Seoul to highlight the increase in cooperation in various fields between the United States and the South Korean Executive. Secretary of State Antony Blinken already announced on June 14 that the US is working with South Korea and Japan to counter “the threat from North Korea” and underlined the good relations with the authorities of Seoul and Washington. to strengthen them. The White House is aware of the economic and commercial potential of the Indo-Pacific region. Good proof of this is Joe Biden’s Asian tour in May, which made a stop in Seoul, where the US president visited the largest semiconductor factory in the world and defended the protection at all costs of “supply chains” to avoid international crises.
Pelosi is also traveling today, according to her schedule, to Panmunjom, a border city with North Korea, located in the demilitarized zone between the two countries and dubbed “the most tense area in the world” because North Korean, South Korean and US troops are there. live together . The two Koreas signed the truce ending the war in 1953 and chose it as the venue for their nuclear weapons talks four years ago. Trump and Kim Jong-un met in this city in 2019.
Source: La Verdad
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