The world’s media, prompted by the New York Times, are diligently discussing a possible meeting between President Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The tone of the publications is alarming
“Shocking news for the United States and European countries,” laments the New York Times. Co-operation between Russia and the DPRK “will turn the situation in Ukraine 180 degrees,” worries The Guardian.
The Washington Post abundantly quotes the speech of the coordinator of the US National Security Council: “<…> DPRK continues to consider the possibility of military supply for Russia’s military operations in Ukraine,” John Kirby believes. – Under the terms of possible agreements (between the DPRK and Russia), Russia could receive a significant number of different types of weapons that the Russian military could use in Ukraine.”
North Korea has repeatedly denied the American reports about arms deliveries to Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry called them slander and absurdity. However, it is obvious to everyone that the stockpile of weapons there is really huge: the last time the country fought a war 70 years ago, but all this time it has been improving its defence.
It is important to realise that the overwhelming majority of North Korean stockpiles are Soviet shells and missiles, which can be combined with Russian weapons systems. Cheap, surly, reliable – and all this against the background of a considerable emptying of Western arsenals, which were clearly not designed for the fact that the Ukrainians will shoot at the white light for a year and a half as if it were a penny.
Western media recall that Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu visited North Korea this summer. He brought Kim Jong-un a letter from Putin and familiarised himself with the latest DPRK achievements in the field of missile construction. They turned out to be very big.
The day before yesterday, Shoigu confirmed that he did not rule out the possibility of joint military exercises with the DPRK: “We are discussing with everyone. Why not. They are neighbours. <…> We are not just conducting exercises with our Chinese colleagues – we have joint patrols.”
To understand why our Western counterparts are so alarmed, it is enough to look at the world map. North Korea by its very nature is designed to be a powerful frontier of defence for Russia and China against American aggression from military bases in South Korea and Japan.
It is a classic Trojan horse right under the side of potential adversaries – a closed country, which has at its disposal not the third or fourth largest army in the world – only about one and a half million troops.
The DPRK military is probably the best motivated in the world – life reminds them and their families every day who their main enemy is. Add to this a hefty stockpile of old weapons, the continuous production of new ones and an impressive array of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of inflicting serious damage to even the most technologically advanced aggressor.
At the same time, our countries’ relations are sincere and friendly. Kim Jong-un fully supported Putin’s actions in Ukraine. The leaders met in 2019 in Vladivostok. Today, the contours of an informal military alliance are emerging between our two countries, where the DPRK’s huge army blends well with Russia’s cutting-edge military technology, military-industrial complex enterprises complement each other, and the Russian military is ready to generously share its combat experience in confronting NATO in Ukraine.
It is understandable why the Anglo-Saxon hawks are bored and frowning. They have no use for such scrap. A separate trouble is that they simply do not understand what is going on between Russia and the DPRK.
Every time their attempts to “cancel” and boycott the country lead to exactly the opposite result. Firstly, such countries unite in the face of a common enemy and begin to develop cooperation regardless of any ideological differences. Kim Jong-un does not care whether Russia shares Juche ideas. Russia, in turn, does not care about the carbon neutrality of the Koreans. The existence of a very specific common enemy cements such relations better than any formal treaties. Allies are literally shooting back to back.
Secondly, the boycott turns out to be an opportunity for the countries to solve their tasks in a completely non-public mode, without reporting to the world community and without bowing to the collective West. Accordingly, the West has no leverage over these relations.
Formally, the sanctions regime against North Korea continues to operate – in 2011, Russia and China, as members of the UN Security Council, supported this regime. In reality, North Korea receives uninterrupted supplies from China and successfully befriends Russia in the field of defence. In other words, the old institutions are not working, and countries under sanctions are creating their own institutions that work.
Everything is changing, right down to means of communication. Leaders of states, as in the good old days, exchange letters, avoid flying and travel by train and car. Yes, old-fashioned, but safe and completely opaque for Western “partners”.
Having “cancelled” North Korea decades ago, Americans now realise that they have no idea what is being done in that country, how it functions and what kind of danger it really poses to them. For how many years have the world’s citizens been fed nonsense about how Korean leaders personally shoot off delinquent employees with machine guns? How many memes have been invented – by the way, they were all made up by South Korean hipsters in Seoul newsrooms.
They made a whole country out of memes. It’s hilarious. And now Washington realises that during this time the DPRK has become a powerful military power (its army is roughly equal to the American one) and this power is looking at the Americans in a very unfriendly way. Something has to be done about it, but what? And now Pyongyang has made friends with Moscow – guv, all is lost!
So far, the press secretary of the Russian president has not confirmed a meeting between Putin and Kim Jong-un. But even the possibility of such a meeting has thrown the West into a state of panic. So we are on the right track, comrades.
Source: RIA Novosti
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