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current affairs. ah, out there. north korea appears to have resumed its nuclear activity as follows: con young warning, it will extend its program unless sanctions are lifted for the us and its allies ready to engage in more diplomatic talk. this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm getting you navigate on the un nuclear watchdog says north korea has restarted its main nuclear reactor. the international atomic energy agency released a report saying it has observed evidence of cooling water from the plant indicating

its in use. the 5 megawatt reactor is capable of producing weapons grade plutonium . that's one of the crucial elements needed to build nuclear weapons. the finding poses yet another challenge for the u. s. and it's goal of the nuclear rising, the korean peninsula. some analysts believe it may be a tactic for future talks with the biden administration, but will it work? we'll bring in our guests in a moment. but 1st, this report from andrew chappelle without inspectors in north korea. dye a relies on satellite images using these. it says is detected a discharge of cooling water at the main nuclear plants and young beyond. and that suggests the reactor is operating. if the latest findings are correct, the you and nuclear watchdog says it's a deeply troubling development. it's believe young beyond react to produce plutonium for north korean nuclear arsenal. in the past. the white house says the a report underscores the urgent need for dialogue and diplomacy. whatever warmer

relations that appear to be cultivated under former president donald trump seemed to have grown cold under his successor, joe biden. as u. s. military exercises were held with the south. unfortunately, the biden administration has been slow off the mark on the north korea file. of course, they were dealing with the renewal of the strategic reduction pd with russia, which happened in february. the resumption of talks with iran on the comprehensive plan of action by thing with it. and also there were draws from of, not just on. so these are a number of important programs. but unfortunately, it seems that the united states traditional position has not changed the all demand for complete irreversible verifiable. disarmament of north korea's nuclear program has never worked at is not likely to work to subject of consternation and negotiation for decades young beyond as the heart of north korea's nuclear program

. it's cooling tower was famously destroyed in 2008 as part of an international drive to dismantle parts of the program. in exchange for relief from sanctions. the following year in north korea kicked monitors out. nearly a decade later, kim jung own offered to dismantle young john in return for the same concessions. the trump administration rejected the offer that would have left cam with other reactors in secret sites. not to mention possible nuclear weapons. weapons, i would give north korea leverage right them if they've got, you know, 30 instead of 20 or a 100 instead of, you know, 50 or whatever. we don't know how many they have been this, give them more bargaining chips when eventually you go station take place by apparently allowing the world to see this new activity at young. beyond the north korean leader may be signaling he's ready to talk and are chappelle al jazeera. so let's take a closer look at north korea as recent nuclear activity. this was the 1st sign of operational activity, a young beyond since december 2018 months after the former us president donald trump, mac can drunk and singapore. north korea has continued to develop nuclear weapons

since i inspectors were expelled. holding its largest test to date in 2017. and the previous year it conducted a warhead explosion that the us geological survey registered at a magnitude of $5.00. the. let's bring in our guest now. joining us from sungard, germany is seelong, who is the publisher of korea expos, a, a newsletter on contemporary korean affairs in sol, june park, a fun global fellow at princeton university and singapore graham on web. who's a defense analyst and research fellow at 9 young technological university. thanks for joining us. welcome to all gram. if this report is correct, if it's anything to go by, these are the 1st signs of operation to be spotted since late 2018. what is the message that kids are going to sending out?

well, it's clearly a signal coming out from, from the can regime that they want to be noticed once again, because i think they have been ignored for some while there is a lot of strategic movement going on in line with the biting administration series of policies. you know, getting with foreign affairs with defense issues. and i think the north koreans have a concern about being left off, particularly at a time when we're seeing with withdraw all of us, baltimore kind of on. but the thing of us, interesting to the asia pacific and also with the discussion of awful back to the table, talks with the iranian on the nuclear deal, say long. do you agree without assessments as a signal that can junglin is ready to talk or what's going on here? absolutely. we have been seeing a series of developments out of north korea that clearly suggest that kelly has

become very impatient with the state of the process. so we have seen change in the language used by the north korean state media with regard to the south korea to definitely become more hostile aggressive. we have also seen remarks coming from kim jong, the sister of kim jong and belittling south korea, to the point that the south korea media and probably have observed with quite some alon and as many of korea experts know when north korea starts to engage in activities around young b on this is a very clear signal that it wants to get a response. the only thing was that they could perhaps do at this point is certainly conducting another nuclear experiment. last time it was in 2017. and i wouldn't be surprised that we actually see that happening again. ok, important points array and we'll get on to all of those in a moment. but 1st, just let's drill down

a little bit more on this particular un report in june park. you one is describing this as deeply disturbing, deeply troubling, excuse me, can you tell us what exactly the discharge of cooling water indicates? well please mcclay, the fact that the reactor is re, reactors, is in, under operation now indicates that it is going against un sanctions. and it is clear to many observers on, on north korea that what's happening with inside north korea, with regard to the premises of the nuclear station is not really built on something that is trustworthy for, for the south korean side or the american side and gender also indications, according to the un report of mining and concentration activities at a uranium mine and planned as well as activity of a suspected at

a suspected enrichment facility. how significant are those? well, the enrichment facilities, if they are activated than their, their, their shirley against the un security council, sanction guidelines. and so if that is the case, then there has to be an emergency meeting that should be convened up the security council right now. it seems to be the case that there are 2, there is a huge concentration, not just by the international media, but the us government, per se, just on us get us then it'll take time for, for these kinds of attention to be paid to the north korean issue, all right, great. i'm the response by the international community. what do you expect it to be because the un is also describing this as a quote, clear violation of relevant un security council resolution. and what they're saying

is this is deeply regrettable. so do you agree with june that some sort of meeting should be held and might be held? i definitely concur with doing the assessment. i mean, the united nation is compelled to, to gather on this issue to convenient to do and to discuss it because it is all to see that there have been a newsletter violations. and this has to be tackled. i mean, we seen over the last few years, an alignment by members of the global community. first of all, in general comes on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. but secondly, in particular, states are concern north korea and iran fall in this category. and i think the most korean regime has gone pretty far and it's nuclear development program. it's weapons program. we've seen some headway some constructive results

a couple of years back. but a lot of that has on rebel over the last 18 to 24 months. and i think it is, it is time for the community together and we'll gather to put our back stop to this, but taking to mind a host of other global issues that need to be tabled and discussed at the u. n. level. and so we're seeing a bit of a backlog here, but i was hoping that i think that it's going to be a little bit more responsive because the north koreans, i'm going to wait for the rest of us, that you're just going to chug ahead and continue to, to develop the speaker weapons will range of political reasons. right and gram. i mean, some people are saying that the north koreans are moving to expand its current arsenal with the current moves on the ground. it's not a safe assessment to make definitely, i mean, dave enough and of course i ignore it. it's still a black box. north korea. i mean, no, but what's going on on the ground because you don't have, you know, experts and observers in the country to report what's going on with

a great degree of fidelity. but nevertheless, there are significant indications that the north korean regime can go in this pressing ahead with a range of military and nuclear weapons related developments and seen that happen over the last 18 months. and it's expanding as we speak and it needs to be curtailed. that's just fair to june. some point that graham was just saying that the i a has had no access to north korea since getting kicked out the inspectors back in 2009. so everything is monitored really through satellite imagery. so does this mean that we things perhaps could be under reported, and we actually don't know what's really going on. it's difficult to ascertain what's going on in the country. but according to the, the report that was released, it seems to be the case that the activation has started since july. and if that's the case, even if there satellite imagery, there is enough of

a case to remain at the security council. and not just that the global community level, but by bilateral level, between the u. s. and south korea as well. and what's really alarming is that the south korean government has not been alert to those. they had been watching the changes in the satellite imagery. they had been receiving the reports, but they haven't, haven't actually alerted the public about the development then it only came to, to, to light after the u. s. pulled out of afghanistan. is the perfect timing for north korea. see wong you were mentioning a moment ago that the last nuclear test was back in 2017. so do you think that the north koreans are now on the path to conducting another one with the revelations from the ground? well, i said it's a possibility. i don't think any one of us can say for sure that it will happen in

the near future. what we can only acknowledge collectively is that north korea certainly feels inpatient and wants to see the response. well, we have heard until now from the us side on the bargaining ministration said it is of course open to a new dialogue with north korea without any condition. but clearly from the north korean perspective is just not enough because they know exactly where this is going to go. it's going to go back to the point where us demand the same thing. it always, which is the complete, irreversible verifiable abandon of nuclear arms. and that is something to north korea is not interested in doing a lease from the very beginning we saw, and the noise from it in $2191.00 north korea is looking for it, offered to dismantle the facilities in young beyond, in exchange for the relaxing or listing of all the sanctions that everything post since 2016 and clarity, that is not what happened here. we are. but it's also interesting to mention at

this point is the development of washington just last night or this morning. there was a high level meeting between song can the u. s. special represented for north korea and his south korean counterpart where they were discussing the possibility of actually offering humanitarian a to the north. and this is something that the south korean government certainly has been fully support team. they really want to go back to the point where they try to assist or at least offer some kind of incentive to north korea in exchange for coming to the negotiation table with more, let's say accommodating attitudes. right? and given that the negotiation c wong between the u. s. and gang have stalled, what is it going to take to break that in past? yeah, we're going to need some major gesture and the south korean government folks that this gesture can be the proposed or into korea economic corporation that it has

been talking about since the very beginning of the month of ministration. 2017, that we're always hoping that the us would also be on board to support this, which was clearly not possible. while donald trump was american president. and we biden, the administration not having quite clear, be articulated in north korea policy. it is the whole certainly of the korean government, south korean government that washington would be on board for this more, let's say, appeasing sense a gram. they are agree without assessment and what do you think it needs to be done now to move forward and break the sticking points, at least between the united states and north korea? well, it's really hard to say, i mean, i agree with you on that. i think we've been moving and circles with the last few years and the last decade alone, a broken record has been playing over and over again. i always think about the

fundamentals of what north korea presumably want to, i mean, fundamentally, in addition to you can on the aid economic cooperation to little, to north korea and to get the people out of this very difficult situation. food short, short. the joe's natural catastrophe. got catastrophes, floods and the like. it really wants something that's fundamental to withdraw. all of us forces from south korea and from ortiz, asia written lodge. i think that is something that is, you know, often ends up being the elephant in the room. the need to be discussed, i mean in the larger issue, also about the $953.00, almost disagreement. whether or not the establishment of a peace treaty finally might mean something, but it's going to set in motion a whole range of issues even relating to the syrian. so the standing us south korean defense treaty, which came out from the army disagreement. so this whole package of things that

need to be tackled, which i think deeply concerning from the north korean standpoint, which amounts to them saying that is in this hostile posture of the united states, against north korea, as we speak right and graham. so then the weapons is what gives north korea leverage does not have north korea is looking for more than washington is currently offering when it comes to talks. definitely, i mean this brings us back to the fargo 2017. i mean, not only to be see an unprecedented number of missile tests and anyone. yeah. well the also the for the combination of the testing of the awesome 15 icbm missile, which is still not a foreclosed scientific journey from the north. korean is still the question of the re entry test, and that's why i still to the edge of my seat wondering when not north koreans, me resume that that testing regime. and so, yeah, the, these weapons, particularly the intercontinental ballistic missile, a potent to turn weapons to the north korean, feel the need to have,

in order to blackmail the whatever us i, ministration of the b. that's impala to seek for political confessions. and while the concussions will benefit the north korean regime, james, erica lee. this latest activity on the ground could be some sort of bargaining chip by north korea, for any potential talks with the united states in dallas. it could be, but it could also be just a hostility move by the north koreans. there hasn't been any of these kinds of international attention when the north koreans cyber had south korean institutions. in starting from may, there were hack phone astrazeneca, but there was not enough international media attention on north korea's behavior back then. so anything that happens on the nuclear front is a gesture that north korea wants to get some response to,

but it's not really clear whether they would want to have a warm engagement or a cold engagement. the south korean foreign ministry, the south korean spokesman, excuse me, for souls unification, ministry june said that the south korean government is monitoring the situation, closing cooperation with the united states. but behind the scenes, what could be going on right now? and south korea? there could be the contact that we can discuss the hotline because they were not mentioned, but the hotlines were re established and there must be a channel between the ble. how's the n i s and also the north korean authorities visa, the re engagement with the united states. and i'm also expecting that washington has its own hotline with ongoing, with the blue house, but it's not really clear what the washington people have in mind. it is quite

clear that the south korean authorities want to have re engagement going on. but think about political capital in south korea. there's not enough room, especially when there is a presidential election coming up in march. the wrong one key question as well as what role china will play in the diplomacy, obviously, given it's economic and political leverage over north korea, but with relations between us in beijing described as tends to what extent is china willing to work with us on this issue? yeah, that is a very good question because china is always involved in some aspect of the nuclear radiation process, whether it's because china is helping to prop up north korea or whether because china is helping korea avoid some aspects of the sanctions. and also china perhaps has the key to making sure the nuclear radiation actually takes place because it is

the most important partner for north korea on the international stage. and that's the reason why many experts in south korea also demand any kind of future and abortion with north korea involving the u. s. most also involves south korea as well as china. a question is, getting china to support any aspect of the negotiation would imply that us needs to make some concession. and given this current geopolitical circumstance, which china and the us have been in order for such a long time already. can we really count on that situation? to happen, more importantly, as graham had mentioned earlier, if north korea wants the us forces in so we are to indeed withdraw. but for us, this is not just about north korea. they have soldiers encounter kim humphries, which is now the biggest overseas military base for the american military. and it

is fair to consolidate americans to your political interests in the region which certainly concerns china as well. so this is a very complicated picture in china that certainly has a very will be brought to play in all this right graham. and to what extent the us willing to work with china on this in my assessment, i think it remains to be seen. i think funding center right now, the range of issues that pertain directly to beijing and washington that need working out tons of the ongoing trade wall. the ongoing, all logical development or access to technology. the ongoing, all disputes are over the perimeter, across the south china sea in the china. and i think that that's immediate for both sides to i think it remains to be seen. all the amount of bandwidth is going to be

a portion to dealing with the north korean issue. so i really can see right now that see what happens, right? judith talks don't take place in the short term future, at least. what does this mean for the future of the unicorns ation? the new car is ation that was only a political slogan during the send a poor and how noise summits. the new cries, ation of the korean peninsula is the coined term. used by all parties. south korea, united states, north korea in the, in the formal declarations that they keep on building. but in fact, dina grows, ation on north of north korea in a very, very concise and precise manner is not something that we can expect from north korea based on what we've seen today. okay, understood,

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