Pyongyang will remain «firmly alongside the Russian comrades until the day of victory” overUkraine. The proclamation that the Foreign Minister North Korean Choe Song Hui he launched from Fly is certainly not one of those who can reassure theWestafter a few hours before the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had reported the presence of 8,000 soldiers sent by Kim Jong Un in the Russian region of Kursk. A response from Washington was today the announcement of a new package of military aid to Kiev For 425 million dollars.
Diplomatic meetings and new alliances
It’s already there third visit That Choe accomplishes in Russia since the beginning of the year. But the attention given by the media to Fly to the event – and the same choreography – seem to underline its full significance from the perspective of a challenge between opposing blocks which is very reminiscent of the years of Cold War. The minister was welcomed with a bouquet of flowers by her counterpart Sergei Lavrov at the Yaroslav railway station, where together they unveiled a plaque commemorating their visit to Moscow in 1949 Of Kim Il Sungthe first (and ‘eternal’, according to the North Korean Constitution) president of the Asian communist state. Not only that: Choe also highlighted the growing tensions in the Korean peninsulawarning that Pyongyang continues to strengthen its arsenal to be ready for “nuclear retaliation” if it is attacked.
Risk of nuclear escalation
The situation in Korean peninsula “it could become explosive at any moment”, because the USA and the South Korea they are working on “nuclear attack plans,” the North Korean envoy said. This requires a Pyongyang to «strengthen its strategic nuclear weaponsoffensive nuclear weapons.” The words are accompanied by the facts: lo Communist state announced that it had tested the new one on Thursday intercontinental ballistic missile solid fuel Hwasong-19.
New alliances between Japan and the European Union
What will certainly not be the news will calm Pyongyang’s bellicose tones Japan and European Union they signed to Tokyo a new one security and defense partnershipwhich will come into force in January and include even more joint military exercises. A cooperation that must not “target third parties”, reacted the Chinese Foreign Ministryinviting theEU to “avoid intervening in regional territorial disputes”.
Russia and the USA: the risk of direct conflict
To complete the gloomy picture of the day are the statements of Lavrovwho in an interview with the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet he warned that the USA and the Russia I’m “on the verge of a direct military conflict» due to the “negative Russophobic spiral” created by President Joe Biden to bilateral relations. A comment perhaps not entirely disinterested, when there are four days left until US electionswith the possibility of a reduction in support forUkraine if at White House should he return Donald Trump. For now, what fuels tensions is the arrival of North Korean soldierswhich has not been denied either by Fly nor from Pyongyang.
Kim Jong-un’s statement
«The respected comrade Kim Jong Un instructed us to provide support toarmy et al Russian people in a sustainable and powerful way, without worrying about anyone,” she said North Korean minister. AND Lavrov underlined that the agreements foreseen by the “have already begun to be applied in practice”. strategic cooperation treaty signed in June by the two Villageswhich includes amutual military assistance in case of external aggression. How can it be considered by Fly the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk. There Chinacriticized for her silence on the matter by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyreplied that «the North Korea and the Russia they are two independent sovereign states and how they develop bilateral relations is their matter.”
Tensions on the field
On the ground, meanwhile, the Moscow Ministry of Defense has claimed the conquest of three more villages in the eastern Ukrainian region in the last 24 hours Donetsk. But the Russia continues to be vulnerable to Kiev drones. The governor of the region of Stavropolin the south of the country, said that a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle fell on the territory of an oil deposit in Svetlogradbut “there are no reports of victims”.