After North Korea's vice foreign minister's visit to China, Kim Jong-un responded to maximum pressure from the United States and South Korea: South Korea is no longer regarded as the same ethnic relationship, and the two countries may never be reunified, and they are the two most hostile countries.
On December 31, 2023, according to the Russian Sputnik news agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended the plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, during which he set the tone on important issues related to North Korea's national security and long-term strategy, such as the Korean Peninsula issue and inter-Korean relations.
Kim Jong Un pointed out that the DPRK and the ROK have completely different views on North-South relations and future expectations, and that the DPRK insists on the stance of "one nation," "one country," and "two systems" and hopes to achieve reunification between the North and the South on a long-term scale in the future, while the ROK emphasizes "reunification by absorption" and "unification of the system." Based on this, and after reviewing the history of inter-Korean relations, the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) has come to the conclusion that reunification between the North and the South will most likely never be realized.
He stressed: In the future, the DPRK will no longer be confined to the scope of the consensus on "the same nation" in handling the issue of DPRK-ROK relations, and the primary nature of DPRK-ROK relations will no longer be the relationship between two regimes of the same nation, but the relationship between two hostile countries and belligerents.
Kim Jong-un's remarks are regarded as an important sign of the DPRK's policy toward the ROK that the DPRK is taking an increasingly active stance in dealing with military threats and maximum pressure from the US-ROK alliance, and some people even believe that if the DPRK regards the DPRK and the ROK as two countries instead of the previous "one nation, two regimes," will it mean that the DPRK's restrictions on the ROK's military means will be partially lifted? The US-ROK alliance's pressure has finally brought about a qualitative change in the situation on the peninsula.
In the two years since Yoon Suk-yeol became president of South Korea, he has made great strides to promote the US-South Korea alliance and even the US-Japan-South Korea alliance, and is hostile to North Korea in terms of foreign policy, has no bottom line and is pro-Japanese, cooperating and integrating into NATO on many military issues, and even actively participating in military assistance to Ukraine.
At the same time, South Korea has also continued to put pressure on North Korea, a very landmark event is that in November 2022, South Korea suspended the implementation of the "Inter-Korean Military Field Implementation Agreement" signed by the two Koreas during Moon Jae-in's tenure, resumed regular military reconnaissance activities in the border area, and began to build new border military facilities.
As a result, the security situation on the Korean Peninsula and even in the entire Northeast Asian region has deteriorated rapidly; in fact, a series of joint military operations between China and Russia in Northeast Asia in recent years have had the factor of coping with the new trends of the US-ROK military alliance.
Although there are times when North Korea will put on a posture of not being afraid of heaven and earth, it should be noted that North Korea's behavior is mainly for the United States, at least for a long time before, North Korea has been very careful not to target the compatriots in the south when "flexing muscles", but to explicitly point to the United States, they will openly discuss how to throw nuclear weapons on Washington, but rarely demonstrate the ability of the Korean People's Army to cover Seoul and Pusan.
They will emphasize their determination to dare to fight, not to be afraid of war, to dare to engage in a nuclear war, and to use nuclear weapons, but the main premise of such statements must be that the United States and South Korea have engaged in some military exercises Xi otherwise they will not take the initiative to provoke.
Objectively speaking, Kim Jong-un's statement has absolutely no intention of threatening South Korea, but is only a response to Yoon Suk-yeol's various perverse actions in the two years since he came to power, after all, before Kim Jong-un made his statement, the South Korean military had re-taken out the Cold War-era military slogan with the clear goal of destroying North Korea.
On December 18, 2023, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myung-ho arrived in Beijing to meet with Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, against the backdrop of the high-intensity military exercises held by the United States and South Korea around North Korea, and South Korea tore up bilateral agreements and restarted border armaments, greatly deteriorating the security situation on Xi the peninsula.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin pointed out that trying to solve the problem through military deterrence and pressure will not work, and will only backfire, further exacerbating contradictions and aggravating tensions. Dialogue and consultation are the fundamental way to resolve the Korean Peninsula issue.
This statement is mainly aimed at the military Xi of the US-ROK coalition forces, especially the naked nuclear blackmail of US strategic bombers approaching the sea and air space around North Korea, and secondarily against the incident in which North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile at that time to demonstrate its nuclear strike capability against the United States.
However, the Chinese side is still very clear that on the issue of peace and stability on the peninsula, after all, the DPRK has been a relatively weak party for a long time, and its military strength is mainly based on the goal of defending the territory and protecting security, unlike the ROK, which has built a large-scale ground armored force and has a "half strategic air force", and the DPRK's military strength lacks offensiveness, and its development is relatively beneficial to the security of the peninsula, and it is the United States and South Korea that undermine the security of the peninsula and Northeast Asia, and even threaten the security of China's northeast region. After all, the DPRK's national security is also equivalent to China's national security to a considerable extent, as Foreign Minister Wang Yi said: The traditional friendship between China and the DPRK has been personally created and nurtured by the leaders of the older generation of the two parties and two countries, and is a common precious wealth of both sides.
If South Korea's perverse behavior continues, it will not only become an eternal enemy of the DPRK, but will also become an enemy of China sooner or later.