{"id":1398974,"date":"2022-03-24T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398974"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:15:14","slug":"north-korea-pressures-souths-conservative-president-elect-with-missile-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-pressures-souths-conservative-president-elect-with-missile-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Pressures South&#039;s Conservative President-Elect with Missile Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-korea-pressures-souths-conservative-president-elect-with-missile-launch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398974&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">North Korea\u2019s government media outlets remained mum on Thursday as of press time regarding reports from Seoul that the communist regime launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. The North Korean launch followed a report that South Korea\u2019s President-Elect\u00a0Yoon Suk-yeol would pressure Pyongyang on human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/09\/conservative-yoon-suk-yeol-wins-south-korea-presidential-election\/\">won<\/a> a highly-contested, often bitter election this month against\u00a0Lee Jae-myung of the ruling leftist Democratic Party. The president-elect will take office on May 10.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Current President Moon Jae-in dramatically altered South Korea\u2019s policy towards the North during his tenure, visiting North Korea and meeting communist dictator Kim Jong-un on several occasions, while urging diplomacy towards Pyongyang and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2018\/10\/10\/south-korea-considers-lifting-sanctions-north-korea\/\">contemplating<\/a> sanctions relief. North Korea responded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/06\/16\/watch-north-korea-bombs-liaison-office-with-south\/\">bombing<\/a> the \u201cjoint liaison\u201d office Moon established to facilitate contact.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon campaigned on a return to a less friendly policy towards North Korea, arguably the world\u2019s most repressive regime and one with which South Korea has remained technically at war for over 70 years. On Wednesday, Korea\u2019s\u00a0<em>JoongAng Ilbo<\/em> newspaper, citing \u201can official on the presidential transition team,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/2022\/03\/23\/national\/northKorea\/North-Korea-Yoon-Sukyeol-Unification-Ministry\/20220323190733922.html\">reported<\/a> that Yoon plans not to \u201cremain silent\u201d on North Korean human rights abuses the way Moon did and would offer \u201cno carrots\u201d to the Kim regime without concessions on North Korea\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current administration has tried to induce the North to denuclearize through many different policies, but all have failed,\u201d the alleged Yoon official was quoted as saying. \u201cWithout progress on denuclearization, there will [be] no carrots provided [to the North].\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere in the article, the same source said that Yoon \u201cwill not remain silent on North Korean residents\u2019 suffering and human rights abuses for the sake of dialogue with the North,\u201d a shift away from Moon\u2019s policy of actively silencing South Korean human rights activists and North Korean defectors in the country to appease Pyongyang. Among the policies that most outraged the human rights community were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2018\/10\/15\/south-korea-bans-north-korean-defector-journalist-covering-talks-north\/\">banning<\/a> of a journalist from covering North-South talks in 2018 over his status as a North Korean defector and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/06\/24\/defying-south-korean-government-north-korean-defectors-launch-leaflet-blitz\/\">criminalizing<\/a> sending human rights leaflets over the border with balloons, a common practice among South Korean activists.<\/p>\n<p>The source\u2019s comments aligned,\u00a0<em>JoongAng Ilbo<\/em> noted, with Yoon\u2019s campaign promises, particular his vow to bring Seoul closer to Washington and return to advocating for the human rights of North Koreans in a manner similar to traditional U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the South Korean newspaper published the report on North Korea policy, Seoul\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) confirmed that North Korea\u2019s military had <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220324007454325?section=national\/defense\">fired<\/a> what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) across the Sea of Japan. The JCS did not identify the model of ICBM and appeared to indicate that it was not one formerly known to be in North Korea\u2019s arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been confirmed that in case of North Korea\u2019s missile launch, (we) have the ability and posture to precisely strike the origin of the missile launch and command and support facilities at any time,\u201d the JCS asserted in a statement, noting that it responded to the launch with its own live-fire exercise meant to show Pyongyang it has the military ability to counter a missile strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDubbed a \u2018monster\u2019 missile for its size, the new ICBM is thought to carry multiple warheads and have a range exceeding 13,000 km,\u201d according to South Korea\u2019s Yonhap News Agency. Yonhap noted that the missile was the twelfth projectile firing of its kind this year, and by far the largest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Japan similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20220324000713\">conjectured<\/a> that the projectile fired on Thursday appeared to be a \u201cnew model of an ICBM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/24\/north-korea-allegedly-launches-massive-icbm-adding-to-joe-biden-foreign-policy-woes\/\">condemned<\/a> the launch in a statement calling it \u201ca brazen violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President and his national security team are assessing the situation in close coordination with our allies and partners,\u201d White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in the White House statement.<\/p>\n<p>While the projectile launch made international news, North Korean state media \u2013 the only legal news sources in the country \u2013 did not mention the launch at all as of press time. The top story in\u00a0<em>Rodong Sinmun<\/em>, the national state newspaper, on Thursday was a report on Kim Jong-un <a href=\"https:\/\/kcnawatch.org\/newstream\/1648092729-236743340\/his-devotion-to-translating-people%e2%80%99s-dream-and-ideal-into-reality\/\">visiting a zoo<\/a>\u00a0in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking rounds of the zoo, he pointed out the parts where they failed to combine maximum practicality and profitability in the minimum area of plot,\u201d <em>Rodong Sinmun<\/em> reported. \u201cThen he told them about the global trend of zoo construction and taught the ways and methods to remodel the zoo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also published its usual communist propaganda calling for loyalty to Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all the sacred annals of our revolution, there were loyalists who single-mindedly upheld the Party and the leader,\u201d the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/kcnawatch.org\/newstream\/1648116193-733499390\/rodong-sinmun-on-loyalty-to-party\/\">declared<\/a>. \u201cTheir worthwhile life was based on the absolute loyalty to the leader. It was their unwavering faith that the leader\u2019s idea and the Party\u2019s policies are a science and truth and that they should fight to the death for implementing the leader\u2019s orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1648119860490000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3qazzf2-Idylj4rkHk1nNX\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1648119860490000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2zh1TgxtkEYKTcjMAS3Xex\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s government media outlets remained mum on Thursday as of press time regarding reports from Seoul that the communist regime launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. 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