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North Korea considered this Wednesday (06.21.2023) in an editorial that the recent visit of the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to China was a “shameful trip to beg” an improvement in relations whose worsening, according to Pyongyang, is the responsibility of the policies of the Joe Biden government against Beijing.
The text, published today by the KCNA agency and signed by Jong Yong-hak, an international affairs analyst, stated that “since the first day it came to power, the Biden administration, seized with disgust towards the Chinese government, has made of the pressure and control the axis of his policy towards China“.
It is “the current US administration that has deliberately escalated regional tensions while strengthening anti-China structures, including QUAD and AUKUS, and seeking to establish a new military bloc consisting of Japan and puppet South Korea,” according to the analyst.
“In a word, the recent visit of the US Secretary of State. can only be seen as a shameful begging trip by the provocateur who admits the failure of his policy to put pressure on China,” Jong concluded.
During Blinken’s trip on Sunday and Monday, the first by a US secretary of state to China in five years, Washington and Beijing agreed to put their relations on track in the face of their intensifying rivalry, though without agreeing on major breakthroughs.
Blinken actually called on Beijing to use its influence over the impoverished country -which has its main trading partner in China- to prevent the Kim Jong-un regime from continuing to advance in the development of weapons of mass destruction, according to what the Secretary of State told the media.
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