Since the start of this year, North Korea has repeatedly tested its missile programs and has already carried out the 19th round of missile testing on its various ballistic missile weapons. After the unprecedented rounds of the North’s missile testing, Washington and outside specialists have accused the regime of completing all the preparatory steps for its seventh nuclear test.
"North Korea is not at the top of the agenda for this administration and there's little interest in fundamentally revisiting the outcomes of last year's policy review based on new developments since then," announced Ankit Panda, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.
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Panda went on, "Right now, there's also probably little the administration can do to deter North Korea from proceeding with its military modernization objectives, which Kim Jong Un has committed to," he announced, stressing that "the North Koreans are unlikely to reciprocate U.S. interest in talks until they've completed their modernization efforts."
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Considering the tensions on the Korean Peninsula because of the North’s missile test with the absence of dialogue between the nations, specialists caution that it has demonstrated that the Biden administration’s policy on North Korea has so far been ineffective and cannot tackle North Korea matters in particular.
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Sung-yoon Lee, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, said that North Korea has not been responsive to the Biden administration’s overtures because "it is not the time [for North Korea] to be engaged [in the dialogue] but to increase its net worth."
"Like an elite athlete conscious of his performance before the next contract negotiations, North Korea needs to enhance its net value, which means threat capability to the region and the U.S.," Lee announced.
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Despite its messages to renew the stalled nuclear talks, North Korea has continuously tested its missile weapons and Kim Jong Un withdrew his self-moratorium on nuclear and ICBM testing in March. Throughout a military parade this April, state media reported Kim stating that while the mission of his nuclear forces was to deter war, "our nukes can never be confined to the single mission of war deterrent even at a time when a situation we are not desirous of at all is created on this land."
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Contributing to the pressure facing the Biden administration on the Peninsula is the desire of South Korea's new president Yoon Suk Yeol in having Washington deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the South's soil – something the Biden administration has made clear it is not in support of.
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