(ANTIWAR.COM) A long-time advocate of diplomacy, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has recently sought to assure US officials that he will accept whatever direction President Trump decides to go on North Korea. At the same time, he offered to
Vladimir Putin’s marathon of meetings with world leaders continues as he sat down with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in. Moon is generally considered a far more peace minded South Korean leader than his disgraced and subsequently impeached predecessor Park Geun-hye.
Speaking beside Moon, Putin said,
“The North Korean nuclear program is a very acute problem, but we must act carefully and pragmatically, and we must keep cool heads”.
Hours after Russia and China both stated that it is the objective of both countries to freeze the North Korean nuclear programme and also to freeze joint military drills between South Korea and the United States, the United States and South Korea did the complete opposite of the wishes of two of the three world super-powers and the only countries which neighbour the Korean peninsula.
The US and South Korea have just launched several surface-to-air missiles from South Korean territory which landed in international waters.
US President Donald Trump sat down with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in to take questions from the media.
Throughout the meeting, aggressive reporters and camera crews were pushing and shoving to get the best shot of the two leaders.
During the ensuing chaos, one reporter slammed into a table, knocking over a lamp that nearly fell on the American President. A quick thinking security guard caught the lamp before it broke on the US President’s lap.
Donald Trump scolded the press, telling them to “take it easy”.
North Korea has furiously responded to reports demonstrating that the now impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her intelligence chiefs were plotting to assassinate North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un.
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A recent report from the Japanese outlet Asahi Shimbun appears to confirm a hypothesis recently published in The Duran that America’s recent fervour over North Korea has a great deal to do with the internal politics of South Korea, more so in many cases than it has to do with events in the DPRK (North Korea).
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called for an investigation into the mysterious appearance of four THAAD missile launchers that were previously undisclosed.
The placement of America’s THAAD anti-missile defence system in South Korea has angered many in South Korea, including those who voted for Moon as a kind of protest against the right-wing rule of his impeached predecessor Park Geun-hye. It was Park who agreed to have the US install their systems in the country.
South Korean Presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan has stated,
South Korean protesters stage a rally to oppose the plan to deploy the advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, April 29, 2017 (AP/Ahn Young-joon)
Calling it a “very shocking” incident, South Korea’s new president on Tuesday demanded an investigation into why his office wasn’t told by defense officials about the arrival of several additional launchers for a contentious U.S. missile defense system meant to cope with North Korea’s nuclear threat.
South Korea has been keeping its military on high alert since the North began to increase the frequency of its ballistic missile tests and threaten the region [Xinhua]
Newly elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in is set to overhaul Seoul’s foreign policy with particular emphasis on easing tensions with the North.
On Wednesday, Moon appointed prominent university professors Lee Sang-Chul and Kim Ki-jung to the top security advisory positions to help him formulate new policies.
The United States, South Korea and Japan have both confirmed that North Korea has launched another projectile, believed to be a ballistic missile.
The missile is thought to have landed in international waters, off the coast of Japan. Nothing was struck during the launch.
This is the second such launch by North Korea since the inauguration of South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
According to a White House official,
