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Biden administration, discussion meetings attended by experts from the US and Korea were held one after another.

While the US ordered "speed control" for talks in North America, many voices on the Korean side argued for the need to resume dialogue as soon as possible.



Reporter Kim Hye-young covered it.



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video debate involving domestic and foreign experts, including former US State Department officials.



Advice from the US came out that President Moon Jae-in needs to adjust the pace of talks in the US that he will do his best until the end of his term.



[Michael Green/Deputy Director, Institute for Strategic International Affairs: I hope that the Blue House (US Biden Administration) will not give priority to a summit meeting with North Korea or a dramatic policy toward North Korea.

The Biden administration is not ready to do so.] It is



to take into account the situation of the Biden administration, which put domestic issues such as corona response and economic recovery as top priority.



At a recent hearing on the approval of Secretary of State Blincoln's nominee, only 1% of North Korea-related comments were made due to the Middle East and China issues.



There was also an opinion to go one step further and join the Chinese pressure in line with the Biden administration's stance to check against China.



[Wendy Cutler/Former Vice President of the US Trade Representative: (ROK and US) can coordinate defense measures (against the Chinese challenge), such as export controls and investment restrictions.

(Responding to China's economic attack) We must be together.]



On the other hand, the atmosphere of the debate attended by the heads of national research institutes in Korea was quite different.



At the beginning of Biden's tenure, the keynote was that the Korean government should try to persuade them to be interested in the denuclearization agenda.



[Kim Ki-Jung/President of National Security Strategy Research Institute: (The US administration's interest is more than the North Korean nuclear program) It seems that Iran will be focused on the Iranian nuclear issue first, so if you leave it as it is, there is a lot of possibility that it will become the Obama administration's'strategic patience season 2'. .]



In the midst of this, former US Ambassador to Korea Sung Kim was appointed as the head of foreign policy in the East Asia Pacific region of the US State Department, who held working-level negotiations with Choi Sun-hee during the Singapore-North Korea summit.



Given that he knows North Korea so well, it remains to be seen whether former Ambassador Sung Kim will be a facilitator of the resumption of dialogue with the United States or will play a role in controlling North Korea's strategy.



(Video coverage: Jung Seong-hwa, Video editing: Jeong Seong-hun)