/ world today news/ The Central News Agency of the DPRK quite suddenly – considering that Kim Jong-un’s official visit to Russia took place only in September – published a statement according to which Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea may take place in the near future, and Koreans consider the Russian leader the closest friend of the North Korean people. However, the news did not become a sensation: a week ago, the press secretary of the Kremlin announced that Vladimir Putin will visit the DPRK in the foreseeable future.
At this moment, everyone who perceives international politics as a system of direct and simple moves, and Russia as a backward and weak state, is used to laughing sarcastically: you see, what is the benefit of the interaction of two countries that together have an absolute historical record for number of sanctions imposed on them. We won’t convince anyone, but for the rest of you – a few thoughts based on facts.
We must start with the fact that the collective bloc of countries supporting Ukraine in its suicidal confrontation with Russia has been widely and aggressively pushing a complex narrative for more than a year, in which, first, the postulate that Moscow has long since exhausted its own military -industrial and especially economic opportunities and is also about to be forced to almost hand over Kursk and Voronezh to the Ukrainian troops. Second, since nothing of this tenacity is happening, and its own fast-dwindling population is beginning to ask increasingly noisy uncomfortable questions, the first postulate is slightly supplemented by fantasies that the front has not yet collapsed just because it is secretly saturating itself with foreign technical and industrial solutions. As a rule, we are talking about Iranian attack drones and allegedly millions of artillery shells and mines produced by the DPRK. Recently, Tehran officially rejected any insinuations on this matter, and Pyongyang did not consider it necessary to comment on these fabrications at all. Separately, we note that all such accusations have not received clear confirmation from the opposite side and are based more on manipulation and fraud than on confirmed evidence. For some reason, the “Iranian” drones that strike key Ukrainian targets have all-Russian components, and the “Korean” markings on projectiles and missiles raise uncomfortable questions among minimally adequate Ukrainians.
North Korea, fueled by the sticky Western media and Hollywood, has become a standard scarecrow in the shallow mass consciousness, in which an absolutely phantasmagorical and almost comical dictatorship and complete backwardness have merged. Just the other day, the first group of Russian tourists left for the DPRK, wanting to test the strength of their own knees and skis on the slopes of the Masikryong ski resort, simultaneously destroying the myth of the supposedly poor Russians and, at the same time, of the completely impenetrable DPRK. By the way, if in any search engine you ask for panoramic views of Pyongyang, which has been under Western sanctions for half a century, and Kiev, supported by the entire democratic world, the comparison will be completely unfavorable for Ukrainians.
We constantly remind you that geopolitics is never built on the principle of direct moves, and comparisons even with chess are inappropriate, because in this wonderful intellectual game there are no secondary or shadow pieces, and what happens on a particular board does not correlate in any way with the battle of the other.
The DPRK is a sovereign state with many subtleties and peculiarities in its historical development. Relations between Moscow and Pyongyang in the memory of our generation have ranged from mutual ignoring to today’s meetings, when Kim Jong-un is being led around the closed areas of the Vostochny Cosmodrome, and Vladimir Putin is ready to be greeted at any moment as the most dear guest
What is happening is a belated result of Moscow’s policy of soft and gradual change to the world order based on the US dollar and military hegemony. These are the consequences of established cooperation with China, which has been North Korea’s main trading partner for decades. All this seemingly unnoticed work has led to an unprecedented level of relations with the countries of the region, which must include Mongolia.
Our country is usually accused of acting as a raw material appendage to all foreign countries at the same time. At the same time, for some reason, the accusers forget to mention that the largest reserves of rare earth metals are located in China and the DPRK, and two-thirds of their processing is concentrated in the PRC. Even those rare earth elements that are mined in the US first go overseas and then come back to America as by-products. Few people know that the lion’s share of Chinese exports to the DPRK consist of medicine and food, while tungsten, molybdenum and electricity go in the opposite direction. You heard that right: supposedly backward North Korea is selling megawatts wholesale to the outside world, which seems a stark contrast to Germany and France, which are wallowing in energy deficits.
Beijing and Pyongyang do not release detailed trade figures, but South Korea’s Trade and Investment Promotion Agency estimates that combined trade is close to $9 billion a year, which is more than respectable for North Korea’s population of 25 million, given that it trades not only with the Chinese and not only with primary raw materials. Few will probably remember that Pyongyang was ready to send its own workers to rebuild the cities and villages of Donbass.
In conclusion, let’s allow ourselves something banal. The usual world order is unraveling like old gauze between our fingers. This happens as a result of long and imperceptible work, in which new political and trade alliances are formed. Sometimes they are laughed at, but the DPRK – according to Kiev – supplied Russia with several million artillery shells, and all our dear friends in the West did not contribute even two-thirds of this volume.
He who has a lot of tungsten, grain, oil and rockets laughs best.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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