[Global NK 인터뷰] 북중러 연대에 대응하는 한미일 협력 방향

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Dr. Douglas H. Paal, a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, shares his assessments of the outcome and the implications of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC). In this third part of the Global NK Interview, Dr. Paal highlights North Korea’s move toward China and Russia. Dr. Paal argues that North Korea will continue to build as much leverage by exploiting opportunities from Beijing and Moscow before it resumes any politics toward Korea, Japan, and the U.S.. He further suggests what South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. should do to reduce potential damage from North Korea’s increasing leverage while exploiting their own improved leverage.

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• North Korea, as it has always done, aims to exploit its opportunities with Russia and China and “build as much leverage before they resume any politics toward South Korea, U.S., or Japan.”

• In this context, President Yoon’s bold decision to settle the historical problems with Japan should be welcomed. While one should not be “overly ambitious” because “there will always be constraints in Korea-Japan relations,” “if [U.S.-South Korea-Japan] can function on broad security issues more cooperatively, it will give time to bicker below the surface on other issues without great consequences.”

• The United States must “rethink what its policy toward North Korea is” and seek for a “diplomatic ammunition.” “It is time for us to gather together and come up with ideas on how to reduce the damage coming from North Korea’s increasing leverage and find good ways to exploit our own improved leverage with stronger position of allies in the Asia-Pacific.”

■ Douglas H. Paal_is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as vice chairman of JP Morgan Chase International (2006-2008) and was an unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan (2002-2006). He was on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush between 1986 and 1993 as director of Asian Affairs and then as senior director and special assistant to the president. Paal held positions in the policy planning staff at the State Department, as a senior analyst for the CIA, and at U.S. embassies in Singapore and Beijing. He has spoken and published frequently on Asian affairs and national security issues.

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foreign that was the third question but uh will North Korea do in dealing with China and Russia when uh North Korea is strengthening its uh nuclear missile power and also I want to ask about the U.S evaluation of our K U.S Alliance these days especially when North Korea missile threat is being threatened uh enhanced so how do you think the U.S perspective uh about this strategy and the future of the Arcos Alliance well I'm quite encouraged by the ability to resume constructive uh relations between

a really constructive a positive relations between Washington and Seoul I'm also somewhat encouraged by the initial and I think in many ways Brave steps by the union government to deal with the long-standing historical problems with Japan as you the US really hopes that our our two partners in Northeast Asia and establish a more Cooperative basis going forward the um and the recent steps on the uh wartime employment or enforced employment compensation I think is a a very positive step and I I hope it will

lead to more I'm not overly ambitious because I think there are always going to be constraints in Korean Japanese relations and we have to be realistic about but if we can function on Broad security issues more cooperatively that gives us time to bicker below the surface on those other nagging historical issues without concept without great consequence the U.S probably needs to do more to rethink what is policy toward North Korea is you know we've got to kind of return to the period of so-called benign neglect

where it's quite understandable we've been various administrations over several decades very frustrated you know our efforts to reach out um are always falling short because the north is determined to be a nuclear power and we keep studying a nuclear standard uh an elimination of nuclear capabilities as our standard for North Korea and that has proven itself to be less realistic over time we need to refresh our views refresh our our diplomatic ammunition to see if there's something we can put on the table but

I'm not optimistic in the near term North Korea is is benefiting from the need that Putin has for ammunition and other things that North Korea can supply we have a long history of watching Pyongyang exploit its opportunities when it has them with Moscow and Beijing and I expect they will try to build as much leverage with Moscow and Beijing as they can before they resume any kind of Southern polity politics towards South Korea or towards the United States and Japan so yeah my I guess my summary would be this is a

time for us to to get gather together Think Tank and think tank government and government and try to come up with some ideas on how we can one reduce the damage that may be coming our way from North Korea's increasing leverage and two find some good some ways to exploit our own improve leverage because of the uh the stronger position of the Allies in the Asia Pacific in this post-trump period