北朝鮮大統領は、国の経済改革の間でも独裁体制が政権に就いていれる保証が欲しいし、国際援助が欲しい
TRIBUNA
Una ola de provocaciones previsible
Kim quiere seguridad de que el régimen continuará en el poder durante el proceso de transformación económica del país y recibir ayuda internacional
EDITORIAL: Escalada norcoreana
Ramón Pacheco Pardo 3 ABR 2013 - 20:02 CET
TRIBUNE
A wave of provocations foreseeable
Kim wants assurance that the system will remain in office during the economic transformation of the country and international aid
EDITORIAL: Climbing North Korea
Ramon Pacheco Pardo 3 ABR 2013 - 20:02 CET
In early February, a group of diplomats, journalists, researchers and specialists in East Asia met for dinner to discuss the following question: when North Korea carried out its third nuclear test? Before Park Geun-hye formally take power in South Korea. That was it. With the test, Pyongyang made clear the policy failure Muyng-bak Lee, the ancestor of Park, North Korea. How Pyongyang act along the coming weeks? This was the question that a similar group treated for another dinner, held shortly after Park became president of South Korea. With escalating rhetoric, was the unanimous response. So being.
Kim Jong-un has inherited a characteristic of his grandfather and his father: predictability. If we analyze the evolution of the geopolitical situation in East Asia since Nixon visited China in 1972, it can be anticipated with some accuracy the behavior of North Korea at any given time. At the end of the day, many of its political and military leaders with influence over the policies of the regime spent decades in power. No wonder that they behave in such a way as to ensure continuity in their privileged position. And the rhetoric is escalating its logical response to the current situation in East Asia.
No wonder that they behave in such a way as to ensure continuity in its privileged position
What is happening in this region to explain the recent behavior of Pyongyang? First, the arrival of three new governments. In Seoul, Park assures a second term for conservatives over the next five years. In Beijing, Xi Jinping is in command of the first generation of Chinese leaders with little memories of the Korean War. In Tokyo, Shinzo Abe has returned to the conservative Liberal Democratic Party after three years in opposition. In other words, Pyongyang has to contend with new governments that do not seem particularly willing to give priority to North Korea on other areas of foreign policy action. Kim Jong-un has to earn his provocations based care.
Second, the continuity of Barack Obama in the White House has to Pyongyang with a good opportunity to improve relations with the United States. Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush relaxed U.S. policy toward North Korea during the past two years in their presidencies, when they had to face the electorate any more time. Clinton and Bush even meditated establish diplomatic relations with Pyongyang. Surely the Obama administration is considering some kind of rapprochement with North Korea. Pyongyang may have a future lowering of rhetoric as a gesture of goodwill.
Obama is considering some kind of rapprochement with North Korea. Pyongyang may have a future lowering of rhetoric as a gesture of goodwill
North Korean Predictability allows to know, roughly, what does Kim in exchange for other behavior. For starters, the assurance that the system will remain in office during the process of economic transformation that the country began a decade ago. I mean, like China and Vietnam and Myanmar before since last year. Pyongyang also wants diplomatic recognition from Washington in order to, among other things, U.S. economic assistance, Japanese and by international financial institutions. In other words, a diversification of its sources of investment to reduce its reliance on China and South Korea. If your neighbors and the United States put it on the table, Pyongyang cease its rhetorical escalation. If they do, the provocations continue for a while.
Ramon Pacheco Pardo is a professor at King's College London, an expert on Asia.
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