Unification minister calls for 'maximum flexibility' on joint military exercises with US
发布时间:2024-09-23 15:32:39 作者:玩站小弟 我要评论
Unification Minister Lee In-young (Yonhap)Unification Minister Lee In-young called Sunday for "maxim
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Lee said on KBS TV's "Sunday Diagnosis Live" that additional consideration should be given to how to deal with the upcoming combined military exercises at a time when the new US policy on Pyongyang has shaped up and a willingness for dialogue is being talked about.
"While comprehensively taking several circumstances into consideration, we should make a final decision on what to do with the combined exercises scheduled for August," Lee said, referring to such factors as the coronavirus pandemic and a need for such exercises to regain the wartime operation control from the US
"But one obvious thing is that combined exercises should never work in a way that causes or further escalates tensions on the Korean Peninsula," he said. "Our government should carry out a policy coordination process with maximum flexibility, and I also hope North Korea will show flexibility."
North Korea has long denounced joint military drills between the US and the South as a rehearsal for invasion. In recent years, Seoul and Washington have called off or scaled back some of the drills due in part to the pandemic and also as part of efforts to give diplomacy more of a chance.
Lee also called for exercising flexibility on sanctions implementation as a catalyst to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.
"I think we can be flexible in our use of sanctions as a catalyst to get North Korea back to denuclearization negotiations at an early date," he said, adding that sanctions can be eased first on noncommercial sectors, such as railways and roads, depending on progress in denuclearization. (Yonhap)
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