Amid mounting tension between the U.S. and
\nNorth Korea over the hacking incident at Sony Pictures Entertainment and annual tension incited by the
\nROK-U.S. joint military exercises, relations between the two nations are
\nexpected to further deteriorate after North Korea\u2019s reaction to recent comments by U.S. President Barack Obama. <\/p>\n
In a statement carried by the official \u201cIt is the decision of the army and people Referring to the president as the \u201croot of This response, in conjunction with the Of these developments, Senior Researcher of the Korea Institute Dr. Park asserted the present situation to press on for the foreseeable future, stating, \u201cPresident Obama made a firm Amid mounting tension between the U.S. and North Korea over the hacking incident at Sony Pictures Entertainment and annual tension incited by the ROK-U.S. joint military exercises, relations between the two nations are expected to further deteriorate after North Korea\u2019s reaction to recent comments by U.S. President Barack Obama. In a statement carried by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":29904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analysis-and-opinion"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nKorean Central News Agency on February 4th, the North\u2019s National Defense
\nCommission declared, with a litany of scathing criticism, that it would be
\npointless to engage in dialogue with the U.S. after President Barack Obama gave a
\nspeech on \u201cbringing down the regime.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n
\nof the DPRK to have no longer need or willingness to sit at [the] negotiating
\ntable with the U.S. since the latter seeks to stamp out the ideology of the
\nformer and \u2018bring down\u2019 its social system,\u201d the statement read.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nall evil,\u201d a \u201cpower abuser,\u201d and a \u201cwild dog,\u201d among other inflammatory remarks
\ntypical of the North\u2019s rhetoric, the statement is assumed to reflect the views of Kim Jong Eun himself, given its release from the highest organ of state authority,
\nthe National Defense Commission.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\ncancellation of the recently proposed meeting between Ambassador Sung Kim, the U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, and the North\u2019s First Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Kye Gwan, relations between the two
\nnations seems only likely to worsen. Moreover, Key Resolve [ROK-U.S. joint military exercises], deemed
\nby the North as training for an invasion into its territory, slated to start
\nat the end of this month and continue until the beginning of March, is predicted to bring on a prolonged period of absolute stagnation of ties between the two nations.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nfor National Unification, Dr. Park Young Ho, told the Daily NK, \u201cThe North\u2019s
\nperspective seems to be that if their status as a nuclear state is acknowledged and accepted, it will agree to talks with the U.S., but the
\nU.S. does not share this stance.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\nspeech in order to threaten the North and implicate that there will only be
\nopportunities for improvement if the North shows sincerity for change. Despite
\nthe existence of the \u2018New York Channel,\u2019 it seems that it will be quite
\ndifficult to see improved relations between the U.S. and North Korea anytime soon\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"