It's crossed now to Seoul to speak to Joan Shin,
A journalist working for South Korea's error on TV.
Yeah. Secretary Blinken has just given a joint press conference
with his South Korean counterpart,
Minister Park Jin. They raised concerns about North Korea's growing
military ties with Russia.
What more did they say?
I think that was the key agenda.
The top agenda was what exactly to do with North
Korea and Russia's alleged arms deal and military cooperation.
Blinking during the joint press conference asked even for China
to step in and stop North Korea from violating this
UN Security Council resolution.
And Blinken has made it clear throughout his whole visit
to Seoul that it would be prioritizing and strengthening ties
with its key strategic ally here in the Indo Pacific
region being Seoul once he met President Yoon earlier in
the afternoon.
He also stressed the need for South Korea and Washington
work very closely.
To extend deterrence to any threats,
mainly being North Korea and Russia and as we saw
in the report before exchanging arms and transferring military know
how which would definitely pose a major national insecurity threat
not only to South Korea but also to Washington.
North Korean state media said Blinken's visit to Seoul will
increase tensions in the region.
How does South Korea see Blinken's visit?
Well, we're still yet to see how Lincoln's visit to
Seoul and what's discussed will in fact inter Korean relations.
But what we know for sure is that inter Korean
tensions are flaring high and whenever South Korea bolsters its
cooperation with key allies,
the North retaliates. Every time Washington and Seoul strengthens or
expands their joint military drills or increases the amount of
U.S.
military assets in Korea, the North resumes their long range
missile tests.
And this year, North Korea has been very vocal about
how it would continue developing its nuclear weapons and missiles.
Stated many times that it had no choice but to
defend itself from belligerent security threats like the US and
South Korea.
So we may see another ***
for tat. And South Korea is also concerned with what
Pyongyang might do on November 18th,
which it declared as a Missile Industry Day.
And this was to mark its launch of the Apostle
17 ICBM last year.
And so South Korea's military is keeping a close eye
on how the Blinken trip will affect inter Korean relations
and whether the North will test launch anything that day,
namely a possible. Spy satellite,
which the North has failed two times before.
If they do this time around,
it will be their third attempt.
So security threats are posing a big concern.
Yeah, Ian, thank you very much for talking with us
today.
That was Young Shin from South Koreas error on TV.
Thank you.