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“Donald Trump is basically confronted not just by the North Korean president but also by the South Korean president," Dmitry Babich, a political analyst at Russian news agency Sputnik International said on The Point with LIU Xin.
“Mr. Trump called the new South Korean president an appeaser. In this way he compared him to the people who made World War Two possible, I mean Mr. Chamberlain who tried to appease Adolf Hitler. That was an insult,” he added.
As regional tensions continue to soar, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said that Seoul would not allow another war on the Korean Peninsula – a position which tallies with the viewpoints from Beijing and Moscow.
Because of this, Babich believes that “Mr. Trump has become isolated.”
In the aftermath of the DPRK's latest – and the post powerful so far- nuclear test, Trump tweeted that the US is allowing South Korea and Japan to buy substantially larger amounts of highly sophisticated military equipment.
The DPRK then warned Trump off any more "gift packages" as the rhetoric from both sides keeps building.
Sung-Yoon Lee, the Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, said the strong rhetorical exchanges between the US and the DPRK has gone on for sixty years.
“This is not unprecedented. But what North Korea is doing – conducting over a thousand missile tests and major nuclear tests – is in direct violation of at least seven UN Security Council resolutions. Under international law, North Korea is the party that has been provoking a lot more than the United States.”
However, Dmitry Babich thinks the policy of the West is one of the main reasons behind the current crisis.
“The North Korean leaders, they see the examples of Saddam Hussein, they see the examples of Muammar Gaddafi, who hadn’t got the weapons of massive destruction in time to protect themselves. They see what happened to Gaddafi.
The North Korean president simply doesn’t have a lot of argument to change his position. Russia and China are trying to address these arguments. But it’s not so easy for Russia and China to undo in a matter of weeks something that the western powers have been preparing for decades.”
In March, China tabled a “suspension-for-suspension” proposal, which would see the DPRK freeze its nuclear and missile activities while the United States and South Korea stopped their large-scale war games.
Russia also proposed a similar “step-by-step” approach, asking the relevant parties for due consideration and positive responses.
(CGTN)
