Roll of the Dice: South Korea’s High-Stakes Gamble to Neutralize North Korea Sanctions

“Combat soldiers would have been sent… If desertion or defection occurs, it will be a big blow.”

“North Korea human rights issues must be dealt with separately through special procedures to be effective.”

(Geneva = Yonhap News) Correspondent Ahn Hee = Lee Il-gyu, former counselor at the North Korean Embassy in Cuba, said on the 28th (local time) that North Korea’s dispatch of troops to Russia was “a gamble made to incur a large political debt to Russia in order to neutralize the international community’s sanctions against North Korea.” “It’s a decision,” he said.

This disaster was met with Yonhap News at a hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, and said, “It is a very serious issue as the deployment of troops occurred in the process of close contact with Russia, which has a powerful veto power as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.”

“North Korea would have sent combat troops to Russia, which is having difficulty recruiting troops,” said former disaster officer Lee. “I think the reason it has not officially confirmed the dispatch of troops is because of Russia’s dissuasion. This is also why the troops sent are not dressed in North Korean military uniforms.” “It is,” he analyzed.

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He continued, “We see an opportunity to avoid sanctions against North Korea without being restricted even if North Korea engages in nuclear activities and missile provocations due to close ties with Russia. If this gradually becomes a reality, the United States will have lost an important card that can influence North Korea.” “It works,” he explained.

On the other hand, he mentioned that sending troops is like a gamble as it has a high possibility of causing a big blow to North Korea.

He said, “If even a portion of the deployed troops desert or defect, the vulnerability of the North Korean military, which promotes mental power as its most powerful weapon, will be exposed, so it is not entirely advantageous.” This disaster was further explained by the fact that no one can know how North Korea’s troops, who have no combat experience and must fight for ‘someone else’s country’, will turn out on the actual battlefield.

“The human rights situation in North Korea cannot be compared to that of any other country,” said Lee, who visited Geneva to publicize North Korean human rights issues ahead of the UPR (Universal Review), which will be held next month by UN member states to examine the human rights situation in North Korea. He said.

He also said, “What country in the world shoots minors without discrimination just because they watched foreign movies? What country is the only one without internet?”

However, former Minister Lee evaluated that Western countries’ pressure to improve human rights was partially effective in that the word human rights, which had not been a concept in the past, has now become frequently used in North Korea.

However, he emphasized that North Korean human rights issues should be handled through special procedures, not general human rights protection procedures like the UPR.

He said, “North Korea prefers the UPR because it is easy to argue that the general human rights discussion framework is not only a problem in North Korea, but also in other countries that guarantee human rights.” “It is effective only when we deal with it and put pressure on North Korea,” he said.

Lee argued that North Korea should expose North Korea’s introduction of evil laws to control ideology, such as the Act on Rejecting Reactionary Thought, and that the media, religious groups, and civil society should actively publicize the reality of the miserable tyranny.

Regarding the international community’s humanitarian aid to North Korea, he said, “Humanitarian aid is attractive to North Korea, but it would be reluctant to have officials from international relief organizations stationed there because it would mean disclosing internal circumstances.” “The request should not be accepted,” he said.

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2024/10/29 02:01 Sent