White House Asia Officer "Russia will be applying for a tremendous high-tech book"

2024.11.23. AM 07:23
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An official in charge of North Korea policy said at the White House of the Biden administration that he regretted the failure to prevent North Korea from strengthening military cooperation with Russia as it is now.

Mira Rapp-Hooper, senior adviser to the White House National Security Council (NSC) Asia Pacific, said on the 22nd local time at a meeting with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think tank in Washington, D.C., that North Korea and Russia are involved when asked what they want to change over the past four years in the Indo-Pacific."One of the things that really keeps me awake is that the relationship between North Korea and Russia and that relationship has developed really fast," said ∀
Lab Hooper. I often thought to myself what it would be if there was anything we could do to change that trajectory," he said.

Once North Korea-Russia relations began, it was on a dizzying trajectory, he said. "Russia is not only defending North Korea in international organizations and trying to justify North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities, but it will probably be providing North Korea with an unimaginable level of advanced technology if we were a few years ago, and that will be a tough problem for administrations for years to come."

"But it's a very, very difficult issue to figure out how we had to do it," he added.The Biden administration has contacted North Korea on several occasions since the beginning, through all possible channels, and throughout the years to today, and has expressed its willingness to talk on a range of topics without preconditions, Rapp Hooper said, adding Pyongyang was adamant about its determination not to come to the table.

However, Raab-Hooper explained that there is a positive aspect of North Korea-Russia closeness, adding, "The challenge posed by North Korea, North Korea, and Russia has further promoted amazing trilateral cooperation with South Korea and Japan, which we could not have imagined a few years ago."

It also said the threat from the Indo-Pacific directly threatened Europe, prompting European allies to respond aggressively, bringing closer ties between Europe and the U.S. alliance in the Indo-Pacific.Asked to pick the most difficult Asian security issue to respond to, Lab-Hooper
mentioned the North Korean issue first and said, "North Korea is a really difficult problem that many administrations have tried to solve, and I feel that it is extremely difficult to deal with.He confessed.




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