According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on the 24th, North Korean Foreign Economic Minister Yoon Chung-ho has led a North Korean delegation to Iran by plane on the 23rd for a visit, the report is very simple, without any details of the visit.
However, the countries visited and the countries visited in this report are North Korea and Iran respectively, and what do these two countries mean to the West? One is sworn to oppose the United States to the death on the Korean Peninsula, and the other is to make the United States suffer again and again in the Middle East.
Moreover, with the economic system of the DPRK, what economic tricks can be negotiated with Iran? The economic and trade between them cannot be said to be completely none, but it is better than nothing, so the Western media generally believe that this visit is not a simple economic visit.
Anti-American commonality
North Korea is a country that is inconspicuous, and the usual news coverage of North Korea is usually limited to the area around the Korean Peninsula, and it is never inseparable from four countries, China, Russia, South Korea, the United States, and at most the occasional Japan.
There is no doubt that this is not an open country, and they have very strict control over their own diplomacy, economy and other aspects, so there are not many countries in the world that have dealings with North Korea.
Although their economic development is slow, they have made breakthroughs in their military strength from time to time, and they even have nuclear weapons in their hands, and the United States is very afraid of this, because the Korean Peninsula is one of the key strategic points for the United States to contain China and Russia, so it is absolutely impossible for the United States to let the DPRK develop to its fullest.
The Korean War proved that the United States attached great importance to the Korean Peninsula, and as a result, the two brothers of North Korea and South Korea gradually went to two extremes, and now the contradictions between the two sides are almost irreconcilable.
North Korea can be said to be difficult for the United States to say with its momentum of playing with your life at every turn, and with the protection of North Korea by Russia and the mainland, it is impossible for the United States to achieve a decisive victory on the Korean Peninsula.
And Iran in the Middle East is also a typical anti-American country, this country, unlike other Arab countries, is of Persian descent and has very rich oil resources in its hands, which has laid a solid foundation for Iran's development.
Until 1979, when the last dynasty of Iran came to an end with the success of the Islamic Revolution, Iran had been a deeply pro-American country, with large amounts of American assets settled in Iran, which stimulated the rapid development of the local economy.
However, although Iran's economy has grown, the living conditions of its citizens have not changed in any way, but the gap between the rich and the poor has become more and more prominent, which has led to more and more voices of dissatisfaction with the United States in Iran until a revolution changed them in 1979.
After the success of the revolution, Iran became an extremely anti-American country, supporting many organizations in the Middle East and instilling Shiite theories in other countries in the Middle East.
These two countries are completely different from the founding of the country, to the development and even the social system, there is almost no similarity, and there is hardly any place where there is mutual benefit, but these two seemingly unrelated countries have slowly come together.
You must know that Iran's scope of activities is at most the Middle East + China and Russia, and North Korea's scope of activities is also limited to China and Russia + several countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
If you ask what the two countries have in common? I can't think of anything else in common other than being anti-American.
The global anti-hegemonic trend is emerging
When did the third world countries gradually stop fearing the United States? You must know that since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the United States has been a well-deserved world hegemon, with warships spread over seven continents and four oceans, and almost no country dares to start a large-scale conflict with the United States.
In recent years, the United States has become worse and worse in the world, and more and more countries in the world are dissatisfied with the United States, and all kinds of anti-American news have flooded the news reports of various countries.
This is inseparable from the checks and balances between China and Russia against the United States, after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, everyone thought that Russia could directly blitz Kyiv, but they were surprised that Ukraine actually withstood Russia's offensive in the early stage.
Just when NATO thinks that Russia is nothing more than a paper tiger, he shows his fangs, don't care how you support Ukraine, Russia just advances when it wants to, retreats when it wants, and always has the initiative in the war situation.
When Russia escalated its military operation against Ukraine into a war, Ukraine became even more unbearable, and has not made several effective counterattacks so far, in other words, NATO's money for Ukraine is very likely to be wasted.
This war has shown the world the emptiness of the United States, which does not dare to completely provoke Russia and is unwilling to fully support Ukraine.
Immediately after that, it was also difficult for the United States to advance its strategic plan against China, Japan and South Korea could not support the wall, and they could not restrict China's development at all, and the Philippines was even more vulnerable, sometimes hard and sometimes soft.
In recent years, the strength of the mainland has also been well known to the world, and the third world countries have strengthened their ties and cooperation with China, and compared with the United States, China's cooperation program is extremely fair to developing countries.
The economic war launched by the United States against China has basically not had an effect, but on the contrary, the United States is riddled with holes, the manufacturing industry is declining rapidly, various countries are selling US bonds one after another, and the house leak coincides with overnight rain, and the Middle East has dealt another blow to the United States.
At present, almost everyone can see that the United States is hesitant and unbearable, and it is holding China and the South China Sea region to talk about things, but it does not dare to push too hard; with regard to Russia, it is giving less and less aid to Ukraine, as if it is planning to abandon Ukraine; and it is slow to end up in the Middle East.
All kinds of things have made the world notice that the United States is the real paper tiger, and this has led to the fact that the previous hegemonic behavior of the United States is no longer feasible now.
epilogue
In East Asia, there are anti-hegemonic powers such as China and North Korea, Europe and Russia have resisted the United States all the year round, Iran in the Middle East has almost torn its face with the United States, India in South Asia is not an honest country in the first place, South America and Brazil and other countries are also ready to move, and even Africa has begun to call for improving its international status in recent years.
For a time, the United States has almost become the target of public criticism, and the United States, which once responded to every call, can never come back, and now it is like an old lion king who looks majestic, and it still seems to be powerful on the outside, but it has long been decayed on the inside, and now it is only relying on the residual power of the past to collapse.
North Korea has finally understood that it is not possible to fight alone, but must unite with its anti-imperialist allies to resist.
Reference: A delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Economic Affairs of the DPRK headed by Foreign Economic Minister Yoon Chung-ho departed from Pyongyang on 23 June to visit Iran KCNA