With fighter jets buzzing and white balloons, the color of Asian mourning, it has been opened in Pionyang he museo to honor the North Korean martyrs of Ukraine. Kim Jong-un, with a solemn expression, placed flowers on the graves in the presence of his russian guestsVyacheslav Volodin, spokesperson of the Duma, and Andrei Beloussov, Minister of Defense, who uncovered the statue that presides over the entrance. “The spirits of the fallen,” Kim has promised, will remain “symbols of Korean heroism.”
The pompous ceremony certifies the communicative tour. Pyongyang and Moscow They denied the presence of North Korean troops in Ukraine for months until the evidence piled up. The museum opened on Monday was announced just a year ago in the midst of euphoria over the “liberation” of Kursk. Months earlier, with an unexpected lightning offensive, Ukraine had occupied a thousand Russian kilometers to relieve pressure on other fronts. Moscow and Pyongyang have not yet clarified how many troops were sent to a continent as distant as it is strange for a North Korean. There were 15,000 soldiers and 2,000 diedaccording to South Korean intelligence.
Kim has promised that he will continue to defend Russia’s “national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests” and expressed his confidence that they will win this “sacred war.” The museum will be “a strong symbol of friendship and solidarity” of both countries, Vladimir has predicted Putin in a letter read by Volodin. The day also served to extend military ties with the signing of a cooperation agreement for the period from 2027 to 2031. Beloussov revealed this to the TASS agency.
No battle experience
North Korea y Russia signed in June 2024 a agreement of military aid and four months later came the first news about North Koreans in Ukraine. The South Korean figures, if true, suggest carnage. They do not lack discipline or training. Nor are they lacking in courage that borders on unconsciousness, their Ukrainian opponents have conceded. But They lack battle experienceNone of them had left their country and military customs and language separated them from their Russian comrades. A couple of captured soldiers showed tremendous disorientation and surprise in front of the camera. His mission, in any case, was accomplished. Pyongyang has announced the sending of thousands of workers to Kursk, a wasteland after the fighting, to rebuild infrastructure.
That alliance worried kyiv, Washington and Seoul. The last one points to the sacrifice of many young North Koreans and the Russian missile and satellite technology negotiated with Pyongyang in exchange for ammunition and troops. Coincidence or not, North Korea successfully launched its first spy satellite shortly after signing that agreement after several failed attempts.
Relations are broken on both sides of the fence despite the eagerness of the Lee Jae Myung’s progressive government. It has been eight years, but it seems like many more, since Kim and then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in met in the border village of Panmunjon. Moon today called on Kim to once again embrace the “spirit of Panmunjon” and “open the door to dialogue” to rebuild “a vision of peace and prosperity for the Korean Peninsula and live as a proud member of the international community.”
Weapons development
But the winds on the peninsula have changed despite the departure of the conservatives in the south. Pionyangcomfortably attached to the Russian and Chinese armtakes advantage of global upheavals in general, and the war in Iran in particular, to boost its weapons development. Four missiles were launched in March, a frequency unknown in more than two years. Kim has asked his Army to accelerate the program to increase deterrence and repeated that nuclear nation status is irrevocable. It was already before the United States bombed Iran and episodes like these reaffirm its certainty that only the arma nuclear It prevents them from the tragic fate of Gaddafi, Hussein or Maduro.
Pyongyang has condemned the “mafia” attacks of Washington is Iranone of his few friends, but has not mentioned Donald Trump. Analysts maintain that he wants to leave the door open to another round of negotiations like those of the New York millionaire’s first term. But this time, North Korea repeats and the United States assumes, denuclearization will not be on the table.
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