Why Japan Demanded Unconditional Dialogue from North Korea

After the U.S.-Japan summit meeting, there was a change in North Korea policy. Japan's Prime Minister Suga said on April 16, “I am ready to meet with Chairman Kim Jong-un without conditions toward solving the abductee problem and establishing a productive North Korean-Japanese relationship.”

This summit meeting between the US and Japan is characteristic of North Korea policy. Prior to the U.S.-Japan summit, there was a meeting of the heads of the Korea-U.S.-Japan security offices, followed by the U.S.-Japan summit. After the U.S.-Japan summit meeting, the United States announced that it would reveal its North Korea policy initiative. One notable thing is that the US does not consider much of the talks with the South Korean president in unveiling its North Korean policy initiative.

In the process of establishing North Korea policy, the Biden administration maintained close relations with Japan both in terms of form and content. On the other hand, I don't know the content, but at least in terms of form, it seems that the relationship with Korea is not very important.

Japan's request to meet with North Korea without any preconditions does not seem to be much different from that of South Korea's Moon Jae-in regime in the early days of the Trump regime.

Moon Jae-in is Trump's avatar, and Suga is only Biden's avatar. Biden seems to be trying to make contact with North Korea through Japan. Perhaps Japan approaches in the way of paying compensation in connection with the normalization of North Korea-Japan relations.

It seems that the reason the Biden administration made Japan, not Korea, as its agent, was not because of the dissatisfaction with the Moon Jae-in regime and thought that it was skeptical about the utility. The Moon Jae-in regime and the Daegaemun tinkeredly supported Trump in the US presidential election.

In particular, Kim Eo-jun said on the air. I guess he didn't even think about what would happen if Biden wins. Probably, the Korean branch of the CIA in the United States reported and posted the inclinations of Moon Jae-in and Daegaemun. Since politics is also human, it is difficult to rule out the possibility that the Biden administration had a grudge not to discuss North Korea policy with the Moon Jae-in regime.

In the case of Japan, the regime change was very exquisite. During the transition from Trump to Biden, Prime Minister Suga appeared. I thought that Japan had even considered the presidential election of the United States in addition to the regime change.

Anyway, you have to put Saesul into a new bag. For the Biden administration, the Trump administration can't play with and put new liquor in a sack.

I wonder if that is the reason why Japan came out as a messenger for North Korea policy. Of course, North Korea did not play with such a game. North Korea seems to have a better understanding of what the United States and Japan are thinking than South Korea.