Defence ministers from China and North Korea addressed the eight Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) in the Russian capital on Thursday.
“The Taiwan issue is an internal affair of China. Taiwan’s so-called independence goes against the pace of history. No one should even think about blackmailing China by playing the Taiwan card. Taiwan will be unavoidably unified with continental China”, said Wei Fenghe, China’s defence minister.
Speaking about the current developments on the Korean Peninsula, North Korean Defence Minister No Kwang-chol stated that the region has seen “landmark changes since the last year”.
“The atmosphere of persistent lack of trust and confrontation has shifted towards rapprochement and cooperation,” he added.
Discussing the political crisis in Venezuela, Pascualino Angiolillo Fernandez, the secretary general of the Venezuelan Defence Council, said the root cause of the conflict is control over the country’s vast natural resources.
The eight MICS was organised by the Russian Ministry of Defence to discuss the most pressing problems on international security.