Kim Jong Un ramps up trade diplomacy with a Beijing appearance
Seoul – Another important scene was exhibited at a military parade with China’s new generation weapons in Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping Xi Jinping is side by side with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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It points out that Kim is the first raid on multilateral diplomacy. Since he assumed power in 2011. In the past, while the leading leader tended to avoid overseas trips due to security concerns, he came to Beijing on Tuesday, even in Beijing, even Kim’s grandfather Kolegy had begun to meet, even a welcome.
“The journey was an undeniable political victory for Kim Jong Fun, Park said Park Won-Gon, Professor of North Korean Studies at the University of Ewha Womans of Seoul. “When you look at the shoulder shoulder with two superpowers in China, an incredibly powerful propaganda image to be shown to the North Korean residents.”
Kim’s growing diplomatic ambitions included a defense agreement with Russia in recent years and the deployment of North Korean troops to the war in Ukraine in exchange for technological and military assistance.
In a statement published on the website of the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs the day before the parade, Deputy Minister Pak Myong Ho, the US and other Western governments expressed their support for a new balance of power governed by Beijing, and accused them of openly accusing to “cruelty ında to the countless countries around the world”.
The South Korean National Security Strategy Institute (Ins), a Government Thinking Corporation, says Kim’s most urgent agenda in Beijing will revive the economic change with Pekongyang’s ongoing nuclear missile program and disappointment in recent years.
Inss Ins researchers, in a report published in front of the parade, “the importance of China’s help in economic issues,” he wrote.
In recent years, Moscow has violated the sanctions of the UN to provide aid to North Korea, from refined oil to military unmanned aerial vehicles, while China is the largest trade partner in North Korea, which constitutes 98% of its exports in 2023.
Stating that the trade between North Korea and China is currently sitting in approximately 80% of the pre -pandemic levels, INSS researchers emphasized that China’s economic support and the shortage of stable tourist flows once, Kim’s “the biggest success of the country,” the newly opened coastal holiday center of the resort of 2025 stressed.
Although North Korea embraced the so -called “new Cold War” order, Russia and China were reluctant to do the same thing– Analysts said.
“China does not earn anything by creating a block with North Korea,“ said Professor. “Xi Jinping knows that this kind of attempt will be the most loose gathering of the countries positioned in the United States without a real power or the commitment of a block.”
In a joint statement published after a meeting in May 2024, Putin and Xi said that the Chinese-Russia partnership is “a more developed form of interaction between the military-political alliances of the Cold War period”.
Although a triple summit between the three leaders is therefore widely possible, Kim’s appearance in Beijing in May provides leverage for a potential summit in the second round with President Trump.
“I think it may be willing to discuss a return of North Korea’s nuclear program and to demand things like a permanent end to any common US-South Korean military exercise in return, or to stop the deployment of any strategic assets,” he said.
Although Trump stated that he was willing to sit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung last month, Park said that Pyongyang has no longer sees the long -standing target of North Korean nuclear weapons of North Korean nuclear weapons, and that Kim’s parade appearance is seen as another indicator of this position.
