At the time of reporting, North Korea's state media, the only legal media in the country, had not yet reported that Donald Trump had won the November 5 US presidential election, leaving the majority of the population in the dark. There remains no.
North Korea does not usually announce the winner of U.S. presidential elections right away, and in recent elections it has taken increasingly longer to name a new U.S. chief executive. As of Thursday, neither the flagship Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) nor state-run newspapers were reporting. labor newspapera vast network of small media outlets has also failed to inform North Koreans that the former president has won a second term in the White House.
North Korea's state media instead highlighted the formal ratification of a mutual defense treaty between Pyongyang and Moscow. mediated This happened when Russian strongman Vladimir Putin visited North Korea's capital this summer.
Communist dictator Kim Jong-un also avoided It has been in the public eye since the presidential election. Just before the vote, Mr. Kim appeared in state propaganda one after another, including a video celebrating the test of the Hwasong-19, a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Immediately after the election, South Korea and Japan warned that North Korea appeared to be preparing for its seventh nuclear test, although that test had never taken place before the election.
Korean Korea JoongAng Ilbo proposedCiting an “analyst,'' North Korea's silence is “a strategic move rather than indifference.'' In response to reports that North Korea is ignoring the U.S. election results, the newspaper said, “North Korea has a history of delaying the reporting of U.S. election results, so we are prejudging the situation.'' He reportedly said he had no intention of doing so.
The same goes for South Korea's Yonhap News. reported On Wednesday, North Korea's propaganda unit announced that it had not mentioned the election at all. Yonhap News said the silence was not necessarily a departure from precedent, as state media reported Trump's first victory of 2016 10 days after the election. The victory of President Joe Biden, who will retire in November 2020, was widely reported in North Korea in late January after the inauguration ceremony.
Before his victory, Biden received much harsher treatment than Trump in North Korea's state media. During the 2020 presidential campaign, KCNA published an op-ed that called Biden a “mad dog” and suggested that Americans would “beat him to death with a stick.”
like JunanYonhap News speculated that the reason for the silence was that North Korea was waiting for signs of what kind of policy President Trump would adopt against the rogue communist regime.
“As President Trump's new foreign policy team has not yet been formally inaugurated, North Korea will remain open until President Trump's policy toward North Korea takes shape during President Trump's second term, and President Trump issues his first statement on North Korea. It is likely that they will wait to announce their own response until they do so.” The agency reported.
Biden ultimately prioritized European issues over Asian concerns and failed to adopt a coherent policy on the Korean Peninsula. During Biden's tenure, he apparently ignored North Korea's growing belligerence toward South Korea, prompting South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol to openly speculate that the country could “have its own nuclear arsenal.” Mr. Biden responded by launching a nuclear weapon from the United States. A capable submarine will be deployed to the port city of Busan in 2023.
Biden too Sent Trump's election rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, visited South Korea's demilitarized zone (DMZ) in 2022, where she said that “the United States shares a very important relationship of alliance with North Korea.” declared.
In contrast, President Trump has made preventing North Korea's new nuclear tests and easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula his top priorities. Trump has invested in building a relationship with Kim, meeting directly with him three times, but walking away from their last meeting in 2019, calling Kim's demands unreasonable.
President Trump said of his decision, “Sometimes you have to walk the walk, and this is just one of those times.” “It was about sanctions…basically they wanted the sanctions to be lifted completely and we couldn't do that.”
Even though Kim was unable to conclude the final meeting as planned, he did not agree with Trump until this summer when he sent a message of sympathy to Trump, who had survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. He hinted that he had a positive opinion about staying. .
“He sincerely hoped that they would recover as soon as possible. He hoped that they would overcome,” Kim said in a message to Trump and his family, KCNA reported. Ta. North Korea later clarified that any “personal feelings” Kim had toward Trump would not have a positive impact on North Korea-US relations.
President Trump spoke to South Korean President Yoon for the first time since his re-election, and told reporters that Yoon used the time to warn him of North Korea's growing belligerence.
“When I told him that, they [North Korea] They sent 7,000 waste balloons across the border, jammed GPS systems, and recklessly launched intercontinental ballistic missiles. [intercontinental ballistic missiles] and IRBM [intermediate-range ballistic missiles]he [Trump] “I can't believe it,'' Yun told reporters. “We agreed to meet soon to share as much information and discuss countermeasures.”
