South Korea Will Not Back Down Against North Korea
On Monday, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said that she is still waiting for North Korea to apologize for military tension, as talks over the recent incident reaches its third day. Park Geun-hye declares "no retreat" against the enemy.
Top negotiators from both countries are in the works of coming into a settlement at the village of Panmunjom, the truce village of North and South Korea. Park Guen-hye stands her ground that North Korea must give a "clear apology" for the landmine blast that injured two South Korean soldiers.
If the North does not give in to the South's demand, Seoul will still be pushing its aggressive propaganda across the border, which is exactly the reason North Korea resulted to artillery firing and threats to deploy military force.
"There will be no retreat in the face of North Korean threats," said Park
According to Yahoo News, North Korea has denied involvement in the recent landmine blast, which analysts deem unfeasible for North Korea to give an apology.
"And President Park knows that, of course," said a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul Yang Moo-Jin. "Both sides are really just trying to ramp up pressure on the other, looking for an upper hand in what are clearly very tough negotiations," Yang added.
CNN reported Defense Ministry spokesman for South Korea Kim Min-seok said the US and his country will continue working with each other throughout the North and South Korea conflict.
"Our position is that South Korea and the U.S. are currently continuously closely monitoring the crisis situation in the Korean Peninsula, and we are flexibly reviewing the timing of the U.S. strategic assets deployment," said Kim.
"I see this is as yet another of the small cycles of the skirmishes that we see between North and South Korea that just happens in depressing regularity," said David Kang professor of the University of Southern California's Korean Studies Institute.
