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First of all, Minister Chung Dong-young said that it is unacceptable to sit down and discuss North Korea issues with the United States. In addition, there is a vice minister-level special envoy for North Korean nuclear negotiations, but he suggested that both Korea and the United States create a special envoy for North Korea on the Korean Peninsula.
Minister Cho Hyun hinted that there are differences of opinion with the Ministry of Unification, but said that the plans are ideals and of course thinks how great it would be if things turned out that way. He said he would try to make it a reality.
The President also seems to have started to organize things by talking about each person’s role, but to be honest, I think it is true that the current plans of the Ministry of Unification are close to ideals. I am not sure that overseas will view the Ministry of Unification as important as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense. Sanctions against North Korea and the North Korean nuclear issue are still too high-level problems to solve, but I think it will be frustrating for the Ministry of Unification since North Korea has not even made a plan for basic dialogue and exchange, as the Ministry of Unification said.
(Realistically, the international situation is currently in a stiff state, so it seems that North Korea will not engage in any dialogue or exchange unless it recognizes North Korea’s nuclear weapons and lifts sanctions against North Korea. The position would be that the politics of stay should be maintained while preventing cultural infiltration. Even if a special envoy to North Korea is created on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea will not try to contact it and will not even invite it. The reality is)
They also talked about how they would like to do this with transportation and tourism projects once sanctions against North Korea are eased.
I can see that the ministry is trying hard to maintain its presence. The Ministry of Unification also has its own work to do. Since exchanges and dialogue with North Korea are not doing anything, independent solutions are needed.
Since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a ministry that talks, negotiates, and makes plans through close channels with other countries in terms of a realistic approach, it seems that the unification project may be very different.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs could have omitted going with the United States.
Now that they have decided to create a consultative body that will meet with each other monthly, I hope that communication will go well and that the deadlock between the reality and ideals of diplomacy with North Korea will be resolved. I hope that there will be no other internal or external problems.