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Greater Isolation Foreseen for North Korea
Analysts said that North Korea has alienated even China and South Korea after failing to attend a regional security meeting at last week’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations forum, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday (see GSN, July 28). “China and South Korea, two key sympathizers of North Korea, are joining the U.S.-led front to the communist regime’s disadvantage,” said Kim Sung-han, a professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security in Seoul. “Since the missile tests, the United States has successfully formed a united front of the other five countries against North Korea,” he said. “The U.S. strategy will be to manage and maintain the five-to-one structure as long as possible. North Korea will not return to [nuclear] talks as long as it carries on,” he added. “The six-way talks will be drifting for a long period of time,” said Nam Sung-wook, a professor and North Korea expert at Korea University in Seoul. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington was willing to meet with North Korean officials “at any time, at any place and without any conditions” under the six-country framework. Japanese officials said North Korea was considering quitting the association (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, July 30). Meanwhile, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) criticized the Bush administration on Saturday for failing to resolve the standoff, the Yonhap News Agency reported. Richardson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration, said the Democratic Party backs bilateral talks with Pyongyang (Yonhap News Agency, July 30).
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