Updated : 2025-11-05 13:05:10 KST
South Korea's intelligence agency is offering new insight into Pyongyang's diplomatic movements, pointing to subtle shifts that indicate North Korea's preparation for potential dialogue with the United States. Our Moon Hye-ryeon has the details. Though an anticipated U.S.-North Korea summit encounter at the APEC Leaders' Meeting ultimately failed to materialize, South Korea's spy agency says Pyongyang had been quietly positioning itself for the possibility.
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flag 기로 신호하다[알리다]
intelligence agency 정보부
spy agency 국정원
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According to briefings delivered during the National Assembly's audit of the National Intelligence Service on Tuesday, North Korea showed multiple signs of preparing for potential dialogue with Washington behind the scenes, even as it remained publicly unresponsive to repeated overtures. The NIS confirmed indications that Pyongyang had been adjusting its diplomatic posture — including Kim Jong-un's deliberate restraint from making provocative remarks on nuclear armament — to avoid antagonizing the United States.
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unresponsive to …에 반응이 없는
overture 접근[제안]
antagonize[ænˈtæɡənaɪz] 적대감을 불러일으키다
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The agency also cited North Korea's efforts to analyze the policy stances of U.S. officials handling North Korea affairs and to gather information on influential figures in Washington as evidence of quiet preparation. "Although the APEC-related summit did not happen, various channels have confirmed that North Korea had been preparing behind the scenes for dialogue with the United States. The NIS believes Kim Jong-un intends to engage in talks and will seek contact once conditions are met." The agency also sees early next year as a potential turning point.
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With the South Korea–U.S. joint military exercises scheduled for March, the NIS says that period could determine whether high-level talks — possibly even at a summit level — become feasible. "We expect — and judge the possibility to be quite high — that North Korea–U.S. relations could improve next year, even advancing to a summit-level meeting. After the 9th Party Congress, another military parade, and the joint exercises in March, there may be an appropriate moment to explore or sense the possibility, depending on how circumstances unfold."
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feasible [ˈfiːzəbl] 실현 가능한 (=practicable)
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As for Kim Jong-un's health — long a subject of speculation — the NIS reported no major abnormalities, saying he appears to be carrying out both provincial and Pyongyang-based activities without difficulty. Moon Hye-ryeon, Arirang News.
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arirang news/North Korea
https://m.arirang.com/news/view?id=288919