Unic Press UK: The spokesman of China’s Ministry of Defense, Ren Guoqiang, told journalists that the People’s Republic of China is unequivocal in its position that the Korean Peninsula should not have nuclear weapons.
Guoqiang, who spoke yesterday at a press conference in Beijing, said that the Korean Peninsula crisis is one that does not require a military solution and that the Chinese government will neither allow any party at home, nor allow a war in the Korean Peninsula or near its territory. China will incessantly espouse dialogue and consultation as the best option in solving the conundrum, he said.
Given the insistence of the communist state, North Korea [officially known as the ‘Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’], that its nuclear and missile programs cannot be restricted by external forces/bodies, the tensions in the Korean Peninsula have always been of serious concern to China, United States, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and several other countries.
In a recent statement, the North Korean government threatened to make “an enveloping fire in the areas around Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 in order to contain the U.S. major military bases on Guam”, accusing the U.S. government of a series of aggressive moves, viz:
- Test-firing ICBM Minuteman-3 at its Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- Mobilizing the nuclear strategic bombers currently stationed at its Anderson Air Force Base on Guam in the Pacific.
- Staging a mock nuclear strike drill targeting the strategic resources of North Korea.
United States President Donald Trump, who repeatedly condemned North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, had, on 8th August 2017, warned the communist state to end further threats. Trump said:
“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening, beyond a normal statement, and as I said, they will be met with fire, fury and, frankly, power the likes of which this world has never seen before.” (Donald Trump: 8th August 2017).
On 30 August 2017, the United Nations Security Council issued a statement [‘Security Council Presidential Statement Strongly Condemns Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Conducting Ballistic Missile Launch over Japan’] further condemning North Korea for firing a ballistic missile over Japan’s territory on 28 August 2017, describing the missile launch by the communist state as “outrageous actions”.
Despite a series of previous sanctions against North Korea by the United Nations and the United States, the communist state is evident, unperturbed by sanctions, rather it appears the country’s pursuit of missile and nuclear development has intensified.
Nobody is sure how this serious crisis will be solved, though the Chinese government and the Russian Federation had, since 4th July 2017, advocated a “double freeze” by the major parties to the crisis,thereby demanding that North Korea suspend its missile launches in exchange for an end to the military drills/exercises near its borders by South Korean and the United States.
