Kim Jong Un to attend China military parade with Putin and Xi : NPR
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, Kim Jong a speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone in a place not disclosed in North Korea on August 12. Independent journalists did not have access to cover the event represented in this image and its content cannot be verified independently.
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Seoul, South Korea – When North Korean leader Kim Jong a visit to China next week for a military parade, he will meet with foreign leaders for the first time, during a rare event with the chiefs of China, Russia and North Korea all together.
The September 3 parade marks the end of the Second World War after Japan’s official surrender to the Allied forces. The Chinese Foreign Ministry claims that the event commemorates the victory of China
On “Japanese aggression”.
Kim’s decision to attend the event was reported by South Korean and North Korean media.
The Chinese Council of State has published a list of 26 leaders in which he said that he would also include who also include leaders of Iran, Cuba, Belarus and Serbia this week. Slovakia has so far been the only NATO member on the list.
North Korea rebalances links with Moscow and Beijing
It will also be the first known visit to Kim in China since 2019. He and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping met five times between 2018 and 2019.
But since then, Kim has come closer to Russia, signing a mutual defense treaty with the Kremlin and sending thousands of soldiers to Russia to fight Ukraine.
“This is a major connection of the fence, I would say, between China and North Korea,” explains John Delury, principal researcher based in Seoul at Society Asia, a non -profit educational organization. “This puts the strategic relationships of leaders on a kind of keel, even.”
President Trump trying to negotiate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, Delury said that Kim could expect that he will have less lever with Moscow, and could consider taking up discussions with the United States
Trump said this week at a summit meeting this week with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung whom he hoped to meet with Kim, as he did three times in 2018 and 2019.
A possible opening for Trump
In addition to Kim, the need to improve links with China, says Delury, the North Koreans could also “look over their shoulder to Donald Trump and see what could be at stake with the Americans”.
Kim’s sister Kim Yo Jong said Pyongyang had no interest in resuming discussions with the United States, but she said in a state media statement that Trump and Kim have a “special personal relationship” and can see again if the United States drops her “way of thinking”.
The National South Korean National Security Councilor WI SENG-LAC said in an interview with the country’s CBS radio that it would be better to keep expectations concerning commitment with North Korea, for the moment. Although, he said, Kim’s trip to China “is a development that requires special attention”.
The South Korean president Lee will not attend the parade, but the government will be represented by the parliamentary president Woo Won-Shik.
Concerns of a new cold war group
Doo Jin-Ho, principal researcher at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy, is quoted by South Korea Kyungyang Shinmun The newspaper saying that Kim’s presence in the parade suggests the emergence of a “new Cold War structure”, North Korea based on Russia For military cooperation and China for economic relations.
China and Russia have cooperated to help North Korea avoid international sanctions imposed due to its nuclear and missile programs.
And China and North Korea have helped Russia in different ways with its war in Ukraine. But the loose alignment of the three countries is not institutionalized, unlike the United States, South Korea and Japan, which created a trilateral secretariat last year.
China, Russia and North Korea either Hold on trilateral military exercises, as the United States and its allies have done so.
The Chinese media, on the other hand, focused on the preparations for the parade, and the contributions of China to victory in the Second World War, officially known in the country as the “Chinese People’s War of the Resistance against Japanese aggression”.
This conflict began with the invasion of Manchuria by Japan in 1931, a decade before Japan bombarded Pearl Harbor. According to official figures from the Chinese government.
THE Everyday people The newspaper cited leader Xi Jinping during a visit to a Memorial in the battlefield last month, asking the Nation to “tell the story of the war of resistance and transmit the great spirit of the war of resistance from generation to generation”.
The Eun Gong of NPR contributed to this report to Seoul.
