North Korean Propaganda Media Criticizes ROK-US-Japan Cooperation: "ROK and Japan Sit Together Led by the US"

U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken (center) is holding talks with Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi at a hotel in central London on the afternoon of the 5th (Korean time).
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[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] North Korea criticized the trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the United States, and Japan, which has been strengthened since the inauguration of the Joe Biden administration.

The external propaganda outlet Echo of Unification stated in an article on the 23rd, "There is a growing public criticism among South Korean media and experts regarding the trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the United States, and Japan," and regarding the situation where the foreign ministers, national security advisors, and intelligence chiefs of the three countries have held talks and are now pushing for a defense ministers' meeting, it pointed out that "it can be seen as (U.S.) pressure."

It also reported that there was criticism that "in reality, the South Korean foreign minister and the Japanese foreign minister have not even had a phone call but were led by the U.S. to sit together at the negotiation table."

Regarding Japan, it claimed that "while consistently maintaining a strategy of ignoring South Korea, Japan is confident that it can steer the South Korea-U.S.-Japan cooperation, which the U.S. desires, in a direction favorable to Japan," and that this is used to shape domestic public opinion.

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