The "Kimpu Club" scored twice, which made the United States and South Korea worried, and also caused some Chinese netizens to have anxiety disorders. In their opinion, the signing of a mutual defense treaty between Russia and North Korea also heralds the beginning of the gradual proximity of the DPRK to Russia and away from China. And just recently, according to South Korean media reports, the signal of North Korea's Central Television is no longer transmitted using China's Zhongxing-12 satellite, but through Russia's Express 103 satellite. When the news comes out, more doubts are coming, and many people may ask: Is North Korea completely forgetting its roots and preparing to stay away from China? In fact, North Korea's move is not aimed at China, but at South Korea.
The purpose of North Korea's satellite replacement is to counter South Korea's information surveillance. As neighbors, the DPRK and the ROK are on the same page, and the two sides are not only fighting militarily, but also fiercely fighting in terms of political propaganda and public opinion warfare. Compared with South Korea, which is highly open, North Korea has been closed to the rest of the country for a long time, and there are few channels for South Korea to obtain information sources, and North Korean television programs are an important source of information.
Although the North Korean government has very strict control over television programs, with only a few television stations in the country remaining and the content of programs being fully controlled, the content of North Korean television stations is highly politicized, and a series of policy changes of the North Korean government can be learned from them. As a result, the South Korean government and related media have been watching North Korean television programs via satellite. The Zhongxing-12 satellite was originally open to the outside world, so naturally there will be no restrictions on the South Korean side, so it can allow the South Korean side to obtain a stable source of information. After switching to Russian satellites, Russia will inevitably encrypt North Korea in accordance with North Korea's requirements, which will make it more and more difficult for South Korea to monitor North Korea's information in the future.
North Korea's move is a strong response under pressure from the United States, Japan, and South Korea. Since the military alliance between Russia and North Korea, the situation on the peninsula has continued to deteriorate. Recently, the United States, Japan, and the ROK held a large-scale joint military exercise codenamed "Freedom Blade" around the peninsula, involving maritime anti-missile, anti-submarine warfare, air defense operations, and cyber defense. It has been learned that the purpose of this military exercise was determined as early as last year's Camp David summit, and its purpose is to continuously strengthen military deterrence against the DPRK. In order to exert sufficient pressure on North Korea, Japan and South Korea both sent their main warships to participate in the exercise, and the US Navy even dispatched the aircraft carrier "Roosevelt."
With the tension between the United States, Japan, and South Korea's "Asian mini-NATO" and the DPRK, and against the background that the Russian-DPRK military alliance has been established, the DPRK's abandonment of China's satellite this time has actually helped us a lot. Because the United States, Japan, and South Korea have been hyping up the topic of the "Triple Alliance" between China, Russia, and North Korea, trying to expand the Korean Peninsula issue through bloc confrontation, and then drag China into the water. Previously, under the premise of increasingly close relations between China and Russia, the West continued to make a big fuss about the "Sino-Russian military alliance", and even used the Russia-Ukraine issue to try to further isolate China.
For example, on the issue of Russia and Ukraine, some Western media hyped up the DPRK as a bridge for China's military assistance to Russia. Under such a premise, the DPRK chose to abandon China's satellite and rely on Russian satellites, which not only allowed the DPRK to block South Korea's way of spying on the DPRK, but also strengthened Russian-DPRK cooperation, and more importantly, proved that Russia's cooperation with the DPRK has nothing to do with China.
Since Russia and the DPRK strengthened their military bilateral cooperation, the mainland has always made one point clear: This is a matter for Russia and the DPRK, and China has not intervened. From the beginning to the end, the United States and Western countries have been trying to involve China in it, and they have also pointed fingers at the UN Security Council meeting, and their essential concern is to prevent China, Russia and North Korea from forming an alliance and forcing China to stay away from Russia and North Korea. In this regard, Geng Shuang, China's representative to the United Nations, has clearly replied to all parties that China's choice of action is up to us. Whether with Russia or North Korea, China adheres to a policy of "partnership but not alliance." In this regard, the United States and Western countries are not qualified to point fingers at all.