North Korea warned on Monday in the The general asamble from the UN that he will not give up his Nuclear program nor will he sign any agreement for a Nuduclearized Korean Peninsula because, for them, that “is equivalent to asking for our sovereignty and the right to our existence.” Those were the words of the North Korean Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Son Gyoing, In his speech before the Assembly, and stressed on several occasions that his country will not give up his sovereignty “or abandon our nuclear (program).”
For the vice minister, the nuclear weapons of his country are those that allow “the balance of powers in the Korean Peninsula” and thus “guarantee a lasting peace” in that region. The nuclear program “is a sacred and absolute right that cannot be touched,” he insisted, especially when his country faces “the growing threat of the operations of the United States and their allies (to) provoke a war.” In his speech, Kim did not refer to a possible meeting of his country with the United States to deactivate tension, rather, because he accused the American country of Azuzar to his allies in Asia to prepare the scenario of “a tremendous military threat.”
Relationships with Russia
North Korea is currently a shy opening process after the bolt that the Covid-19 pandemic meant. During the current stage he has strengthened his relations with Russia and with China. With Russia has contributed soldiers to the Ukraine War. It is estimated that some 3,000 North Koreans have died on the Ukrainian front.
Relationships with China
In the case of China, relationships have a more commercial look. China wants to strengthen cooperation with North Korea to work together against hegemony, said Beijing Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at his North Korean pair, in an evening reference to the United States this weekend. The North Korean exterior, Choe Son-Hui, met Sunday with Wang in the Chinese capital, weeks after the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, also visited Beijing in search of intensifying bilateral relations. “Maintaining, consolidating and developing relations between China and the RPDC (North Korea) has always been the unwavering political strategy” of the Chinese government, Wang told Choe.
Allies in the battle against the US
“China is willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with China in regional and international matters, reject any form of hegemony and safeguard the common interests of both parties and international equity and justice,” he added, according to a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Such comments were a reference to the United States, China’s main rival in recent years in several economic and geopolitical sectors. The North Korean state news agency Kcna reported Monday that both ministers agreed on various topics in their discussions. The ministers “exchanged opinions on international and regional issues and reached full consensus,” KCNA published by the Yonhap South Korean agency. China is an important source of diplomatic, economic and political support for North Korea, a hermit country with nuclear weapons, and both share the opposition to the United States.
