US expert's warning that ``Kim Jong Un has decided to go to war''... South Korean ruling party member from the northern elite ``excessive evaluation''

As US North Korea experts warn of North Korea's "determination for war," Tae Yong-ho, a member of South Korea's ruling party "People's Power," is a diplomat who defected to South Korea from North Korea. is 'too
"This is an excessive evaluation." Rep. Thae said in an interview with a South Korean radio program on the 15th, ``American experts say, ``The current state of confrontation in inter-Korean relations is similar to the Korean War (1950-1919).''
``It's like before the Korean War (1953) occurred,'' he said, ``However, the structure is completely different now than it was during the Korean War.''
Rep. Thae said, ``At the time of the Korean War, there was no U.S. Forces in South Korea, and there was a joint/coalition between our military and the U.S. military.
"There was no military structure," he said, "but now there is the US Forces in South Korea. There is also an alliance between South Korea and the US, and they have publicly stated that they will protect us with the United States' solid 'nuclear umbrella.'" Therefore, during the Korean War, and ratio
"It's going too far to compare." He continued, ``In the case of North Korea, as South Korea's National Assembly general election (to be held in April) approaches, it is launching various provocations and asking questions such as ``War or Peace?''
"We are trying to guide our people to choose one or the other by creating frames (basic frameworks for looking at things), but these days, such frame methods have no effect on the Korean people."
During the recent presidential election in Taiwan, China applied pressure using the frame of ``war or peace,'' but in the end, the Taiwanese people did not fall for that and made other choices.''
Regarding the possibility of war breaking out, Rep. Thae said, ``I think it's low,'' and ``Their missile launches have no impact on the security or peace of any of the surrounding countries.''
On the 11th of this month (local time), researchers and professors at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies warned that the Korean Peninsula is in the most dangerous situation in an article they contributed to ``38 North,'' a North Korea analysis site run by an American research institute.
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