North Korea's chairman of North Korea's military action plan withheld from South Korea was an option to avoid US involvement, said Se-Hyun Jeong, senior vice president of the Democratic and Peaceful Unification Advisory Council (President of Democracy), who served as the Minister of Unification.

Senior Vice President Chung said in an interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in Japan, reported on Monday, "I think the North Korean military would be able to call on US military intervention if North Korean military provocations are being monitored by US reconnaissance aircraft." .

Senior vice president Chung said that North Korea pressured the South through the controversy over the North Korean flyer, "because it had to turn North Korea's dissatisfaction to the outside." "The September 2018 Pyongyang Joint Declaration reflecting the resumption of inter-Korean economic cooperation projects was brought to South Korea." There was also some aiming for pressure.”

He added, “At the US's dismay at the Korea-US Working Group meeting, and the economic cooperation was not resumed, North Korea used “the shocking technique of exploding inter-Korean joint offices or foretelling military action plans” to prevent South Korea from using the Working Group as an excuse.

"The resumption of inter-Korean economic cooperation projects is a promise made by President Moon Jae-in with Kim," said Chung. "The Korean government needs to persuade the United States in a more desperate manner." 

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