The world is changing too fast, and big things happen at any time, and the most recent event is obviously the great results of Putin's recent visit to North Korea, which Putin and Kim Jong-un signed a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty, according to which one side needs to provide assistance when another country is invaded. Has we not seen such a straightforward quasi-alliance between the second military power and the world's largest military priority country for more than a century?
Russia and North Korea have formed such a relationship, there is a strong demand, that is, to break the strong pressure of the United States and the West, Russia is confronting NATO on the battlefield in Ukraine, in the face of the latest oath of the United States and NATO to defeat Russia, John Kirby, the coordinator of strategic communications at the National Security Council of the White House, recently said that Ukraine must first defeat Russia before it is expected to become a member of NATO, and Putin must find foreign aid to help him fight NATO; And what about North Korea? has been sanctioned by the United States for a long time, and there is more pressure from the United States and South Korea, so there is also an incentive to form an alliance with Russia.
So what are the characteristics of cooperation between Russia and North Korea? How is it different from an alliance between the United States and the West? First of all, the cooperation between Russia and the DPRK is to complement each other's resources and fill each other's needs, Russia needs ammunition, and a stable economic rear; North Korea needs technology, energy, and food, and if it is difficult to face it alone, the cooperation between the two sides fills each other's weaknesses, and the effect of one plus one is greater than the sum of its parts. Furthermore, from the point of view of mutual help treaties, it is more defensive and mutual assistance.
On the other hand, the US-Western alliance is now the US sucking a lot of blood from its allies and pulling them to be cannon fodder, and there is no industrial complementarity between the United States and the EU, and even the main competition is financial. And NATO is a tool for the United States to pull a bunch of younger brothers around the world to bully others and rob wealth, not for national defense.
Russia and North Korea have formed a quasi-alliance, how did the countries of the world react? On the 19th, the Washington Post said that the United States and its allies are "very worried" about the growing cooperation between Russia and North Korea, and Putin's visit has strengthened the "united front against the West" between the two countries to jointly resist the sanctions and isolation policy led by the United States. CNN reported that what worries the West even more is that Russia-North Korea "military-technical cooperation" "may mean more artillery shells and missiles being shipped from North Korean factories to the front line in Ukraine."
South Korea has also expressed concern that Russia has boosted North Korea's confidence, especially with the help of Russia, which has increased the level of North Korean missiles and satellites, posing a threat to South Korea. On the 18th, at the meeting between China and the ROK, the ROK side also specifically mentioned concerns about exchanges and cooperation between the DPRK and Russia, but the big eastern countries said that the DPRK and Russia, as friendly neighbors, have normal needs for exchanges, cooperation, and development of relations, and that the relevant high-level exchanges are bilateral arrangements between the two sovereign states. What does it mean? This is to tell South Korea that they are not particularly targeting you, and that it is the United States and the West that force them to get close to each other and make amusement, but all this has nothing to do with the big countries.
Russia's own assessment is that Russia and the DPRK are neighbors, and cooperation is not aimed at a third country, but for our own sake and the interests of the peoples of the two countries. As for the rest of the world, the Russian-Ukrainian war has been fought for more than two years, and it has long been a matter of watching the fire, not caring about itself, hanging high, waiting for the further chain reaction of Russia and North Korea forming a quasi-alliance. #普京访越和访朝有何差别#