Thought about Kim Jong-Un in a different way? With the missile tests, the Regime does not want to provoke in Pyongyang unless Washington changes during the negotiations, the Position. Fabian Kretschmer from Seoul.
It was the second weapons test in less than a week. In the morning hours on Wednesday, Pyongyang has fired two ballistic missiles from its East coast. According to the South Korean General staff of the two projectiles flew about 250 kilometers and reaches a height of 30 kilometers.
Experts agree that North Korea is calculated most recent provocation carefully. “It is a rational move and a clear message to the US: as Long as Trump does not change his negotiating position in the nuclear negotiations, it will escalate the situation,” says North Korea expert Go Myong-hyun of the Seoul think tank the Asan Institute. So far, the Americans would insist on a one-sided nuclear disarmament of North Korea. Pyongyang urge, however, that the United States remove its nuclear protection shield of the Korean Peninsula, so Go on.
Kim Jong-Un on the big screen in South Korea
Crisis meeting in South Korea
Expert Go Myong-hyun believes that the know-it-commander-in-chief Kim Jong-Un, to the missile tests, no serious consequences to fear. So far, the UN security Council has imposed never economic sanctions after the Test of short-range missiles against North Korea, although the Test itself is a clear violation of the UN Resolution. The inter-continental missiles are seen as a much more serious provocation.
South Korea’s government convened a safety meeting. You have “serious concern that North Korea’s Test of two short-range missiles a negative impact on peace on the Korean Peninsula could have an impact,” said Seoul’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong.
Muted voice comes from the other side of the Japanese sea. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said only that the missile tests had no impact on the security of his country.
Trump and Kim in June in Panmunjom
Trump does not want to jeopardize the talks with Kim
US President, Donald Trump has not commented yet publicly on Twitter. North Korea’s weapons tests of the last week he has played but is visibly down. “How will see what happens in the near future. My relations to Kim Jong Un are very good. North Korea has short-range rockets, like many other countries,” said Trump in an Interview with his home station, Fox News. On demand, whether the Test was surprised, he replied, “no, not at all.” Obviously he doesn’t want the conversation breaks off the thread with Kim.
Trump and Kim had agreed at the end of June during a brief Meeting in the border town of Panmunjom on the Korean Peninsula, talks on nuclear disarmament in the Region. After the failed summit in November in Vietnam, the Meeting raised new hope
Progress in the stalled negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear program.
Kim inspected the U-boat
Trumps opinion, as a free-letter for further testing in the run-up to the annual military manoeuvres of the South Korean and US forces? “North Korea perceives the maneuver as a serious threat,” says Andray Abrahamian, a researcher at the Asia Pacific Center, Stanford University, “with the missile tests, North Korea sends a simple message: as Long as the military maneuvers of the U.S. and South Korea take place, be we will respond with military action”. The Americans currently have stationed 28,000 troops on South Korean soil.
North Korea’s ruler, Kim inspected the U-boat
Already on the last Tuesday of North Korea has been in power, according to the state news Agency KCNA, a new-built U-boat inspected, the may nuclear missile could cause. “Many Korean experts, including me, interpret this as a sign that soon a much larger missile test from North Korea before,” says Go Myong-hyun, the Asan Institute.