Rapprochement with Russia gives safety and economic maneuvering rooms in North Korea

The Pyongyang regime is trying to take advantage of the war waged by Moscow in Ukraine and tensions between China and the United States.

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The embellishment of relations with Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine, on February 24, but also the possible revival of trade with China offer room for maneuver to North Korea for its nuclear development and that missiles, even to improve its economy.

The new deal is also translated as a clear rejection of South Korea dialogue offers. In a message made public Friday, August 19, by the official agency KCNA, Kim Yo-Jong, sister of manager Kim Jong-un, castigated what South Korean conservative president, Yoon Seok-Youl, presented, August 15 , as a “daring initiative” supposed to develop the North Korean economy in return for denuclearization measures. M me Kim, also a deputy director within the central committee of the Labor Party, in power, compared it to an “attempt to plant mulberry trees in the middle of the ocean”.

On August 17, the shooting of two cruise missiles by Pyongyang had coincided with the press conference given by Mr. Yoon for the hundredth day of his entry into office, and during which he stressed the importance ” to establish a lasting peace between the two Koreas “.

” common front against threats “

Admittedly, Pyongyang sanctions the calls of Mr. Yoon, during the campaign for the presidential election of March, to tackle politics towards the North and its decision to qualify North Korea as “main enemy” in the book in the book white on the defense. In addition, the refusal to answer the calls launched by Seoul is not new.

This time, however, he intervenes in full embellished relations between Pyongyang and Moscow. On August 15, Kim Jong-un received a letter from the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Invoking past battles “between the Red Army and the Patriots of Korea” for the release of the peninsula, Mr. Poutine wanted to “contribute to the strengthening of the safety and stability of Korea”.

m. Kim replied to him by stressing “strategic and tactical cooperation, support and solidarity” between the two countries, which “were brought to a high level, by the common front against the threats and provocations of the hostile forces”, those -I referring to the United States. On the sidelines of this epistolary exchange, the master of the Kremlin declared, on August 15 at the Army 2022 Salon, organized near Moscow by the Ministry of Defense, that he was “ready to offer allies and partners the weapons systems most modern “.

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