Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has heightened the risk of war in the Indo-Pacific, according to South Korea's envoy to the United States, who portrayed North Korea’s dictatorship as both anxious and dangerous.
“This is not just an event that happened in Europe. It has very serious implications for Korea and other countries in the Pacific,” South Korean Ambassador Taeyong Cho said Thursday during an event in Washington.
“We all know that Kim Jong Un is not a happy man these days because North Korea's economy — always bad over the years but really in shambles these days,” Cho said, estimating that the regime’s foreign trade has fallen to “less than 5%” of its historic peak a decade ago.“North Korea has utterly failed in terms of providing [for the] basic needs of the North Korean people.
“Kim Jong Un has difficulty delivering on his promises to his people, what they call the dual pursuit of nuclear weapons and the economic developments,” the envoy said before noting Kim’s recent emphasis on ”the need for strengthening internal discipline, meaning ... preventing outside cultures coming into North Korea and influencing the younger generations.”
“The Ukrainian war still is a regional war, but the way Russians have waged it, the implications are strategic and global — and for quite a long time to come,” Janis Sarts, a former senior Latvian defense official who now directs NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence in Riga, told the Washington Examiner in June.
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