The world knows that the relations between North Korea–United are hostile and developed primarily during the Korean War. In the last few relations have been largely defined by North Korea’s six tests of nuclear weapons, its development of long-range missiles capable of striking targets thousands of miles away, and its continual threats to strike the United States and South Korea with nuclear weapons and conventional forces. During his government, George W. Bush referred to North Korea as part of “the Axis of Evil” because of the threat its nuclear capabilities possesses.
As the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States of America have no formal diplomatic relations, Sweden acts as the protecting power of United States interests in North Korea for consular matters. Since the Korean War, the US has raised a strong military presence in South Korea. However, the United States has considered, rightly claimed South Korea as the sole legitimate representative of all of Korea.
The American public supports the fact that US forces to defend South Korea and this opinion has increased steadily. While was at a mere 26% in 1990, it has now nearly tripled to 62%. A majority of the American population also have a positive view of Moon Jae-In, the South Korean president as of 2017.
Currently, North Korea is only a few months away from obtaining the capability to hit U.S. with a nuclear weapon and must be controlled, a U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, dismissing Pyonyang’s diplomatic thaw with South Korea as a “charm offensive” that fooled no one.
“North Korea has accelerated its provocative pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, and expressed explicit threats to use nuclear weapons against the United States and its allies in the region,” U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood informed the Geneva forum. “North Korean officials insist that they will not give up nuclear weapons, and North Korea may now be only months away from the capability to strike the United States with nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. A new U.S. nuclear policy review outlined last week “reaffirms that North Korea’s illicit nuclear program must be completely, verifiably, and irreversibly eliminated, resulting in a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,” he said in the forum.