According to Korean media reports, on September 29, US Vice President Harris arrived at the Usan Air Force Base in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, and started a visit to South Korea. It is reported that this is the second time the US vice president visited South Korea after four and a half years. Before arriving in South Korea, Harris also traveled to Japan for a three-day visit.
In fact, the focus of Harris's visit to Asia was not to visit South Korea, but to participate in the "state funeral" of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo . It is reported that Harris and his group arrived in Japan on September 26 and visited Japan for a three-day visit.
27, as a representative of the US government, Harris participated in the "state funeral" of Abe . On the same day, Harris also held talks with South Korean Prime Minister , who also attended the funeral.
After Harris arrived in South Korea on the 29th, Yoon Seok-yeol met Harris at the Presidential Palace, and the two sides held closed-door talks. Also attending the talks were US Ambassador to South Korea Philip Goldberg and Vice President's Security Advisor Philip Gordon.
, while South Korea sent Foreign Minister Park Jin, National Security Office Director Kim Sung-han and others to attend the talks. Yoon Seo-hyun and Harris discussed several topics of common concern to South Korea and the United States and global issues.
In addition, Harris also visited the South Korea-North Korea Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that day and embarked on the road back that night. As South Korea-North Korea relations are becoming increasingly tense, Harris' visit to South Korea has undoubtedly further intensified tensions on the peninsula.
, and North Korea also issued a warning to South Korea and the United States with practical actions. It is reported that the day before Harris' visit to South Korea, that is, on September 28, North Korea launched two missiles into the eastern waters.
In the afternoon of the same day, the South Korean Joint Staff Headquarters announced that North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles . The South Korean army is strengthening surveillance, analyzing missile parameters, and maintaining communication with the United States.
It is reported that this is the second time North Korea launches ballistic missile in a week. Previously, on September 25, North Korea also launched a ballistic missile, and North Korea launched another ballistic missile after 113 days.
North Korea launched ballistic missiles at that time mainly to issue a warning to the joint US-South Korea military exercises. It is reported that the USS Reagan aircraft carrier entered the Busan port in South Korea on September 23, and once again held joint exercises with the South Korean army after nearly five years.
North Korea launched ballistic missiles after 113 days in order to warn the United States and South Korea. However, on September 26, the joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea was held as scheduled.
When North Korea launched its missile on the 28th, the US Navy's USS Reagan aircraft carrier held a joint military exercise with South Korea's Navy in the eastern waters of South Korea. Therefore, North Korea launched the missile this time not only to warn Harris about his visit to South Korea, but also to warn him about the joint US-South Korea military exercises.
However, after North Korea launched the missile, Harris still visited South Korea as planned, and the joint US-South Korea military exercises also ignored the warning and continued to be held. Not only that, the United States and South Korea also plan to hold a three-party joint military exercise with Japan in the future.
US-Japan-South Korea alliance has always been the effect the United States hopes to achieve, but due to the dispute over territorial sovereignty between Japan and South Korea, it has been difficult for the United States to unite Japan and South Korea.
But since Yoon Seo-hyo became South Korean president, Japan-South Korea relations seem to have a possibility of improvement. Recently, the South Korean Prime Minister went to Japan to attend Abe's "state funeral" and held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio . After the talks of
, the United States, Japan and South Korea announced that it would hold a joint military exercise, and the exercise location was near the disputed territory of Japan and South Korea " Dokdo ", which aroused dissatisfaction among the South Korean people.
South Korean people believe that the joint military exercises of the United States, Japan and South Korea on Dokdo are equivalent to compromising Japan on the issue of sovereignty, which makes them unacceptable.
Someone also said that the Yoon Seok-yeo government's decision will make South Korean anti-Japanese generals "bleed and tears".In response to this, some South Korean MPs questioned Yoon Seok-yeol’s government: Is this awesome?
After the news that the United States, Japan and South Korea will hold military exercises near Dokdo Island fermented, it also aroused doubts and opposition from the South Korean government and opposition regarding Yoon Seo-young's view of ambulance, believing that South Korea should not participate in this exercise or request a change of exercise location.
However, the dissatisfaction of South Korean lawmakers and the public is likely to not affect this trilateral joint exercise, because the United States is the leader of the US-Japan-South Korea military exercise, and the military exercise is for demonstrations to North Korea, so the exercise will definitely not be cancelled. Yoon Seok-yeo's government is currently trying hard to please the United States, so naturally it will not withdraw from the exercise. But in this way, Yoon Seok-yeol's ruling career may face more and more ups and downs.
