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The US should "refrain from causing a stink", words recently uttered from Pyongyang ahead of a visit to the Korean peninsula by the US Defense Secretary and Secretary of State.

Both Lloyd Austin and Anthony Blinken are in South Korea for talks on North Korea and its ally, China. Only last week the US and South Korea held joint military manoeuvres in the region.

Robert Kelly is a Professor of Political Science at Pusan National University in Seoul:

鈥淪outh Korea has tried for years to walk between the raindrops鈥� But as competition with China accelerates, the United States is going to push not just South Korea but its other friends in the region to choose one side.鈥�

(Pic: US Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, flanked by security and US top military officer; Credit: Reuters)