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In foreign policy, North Korea has always given a very tough feeling.In the face of the recent statements of the United States and South Korea, within 48 hours, Kim Jong Un's sister twice notified the world, the United States and South Korea completely missed.
From July 28 to 29, Kim Jong Un's sister,Deputy Secretary of the Central Committee of the Korean Labour PartyJin YouzhengTwo consecutive statements in two days directly outraged the United States and South Korea, showing that North Korea will never give in on nuclear weapons and foreign policy.
On July 28, she first responded to the dialogue proposal of South Korean President Li in Ming. Li stopped broadcasting again after he took office, again disbanded North Korean images, and also wanted to make peace on the peninsula.
But Kim said that North Korea's hostility to South Korea has not changed, no matter what South Korea does, North Korea is not interested.
She said that South Korea had previously regarded North Korea as a "main enemy", leading to the current tense situation on the peninsula, and now in a few words to try to solve the problems between the two countries, is in vain.
The next day, July 29th, she opened the United States again. The White House said Trump wanted to talk to North Korea and let North Korea give up its nuclear weapons. Kim Yuzheng replied directly, saying, "That's because the United States thought too much", and North Korea didn't want to talk about it.
She stressed that North Korea is now a nuclear powered country, and it is necessary to acknowledge this fact before talking about anything, and North Korea considers any options, that is, not to talk about denuclearization.
She also spoke about the 2018 meeting in Panmunjom, saying that at the time North Korea's nuclear weapons were still underway, the bottom was insufficient, and it could only be held.
Kim Jong-un is not only Kim’s sister, but also a key figure in North Korea. In 2020, South Korea’s intelligence agency said Kim Jong-un had begun letting her run.
She not only cares about the policies of South Korea and the United States, but also intervenes in military decision-making. On August 19 this year, she even signed a nuclear readiness order, which shows how much power she has.
North Korea is very determined to pursue nuclear weapons. In 2022, they passed the Nuclear Forces Policy Decree, and in 2023, nuclear status was written into the constitution.
The latest satellite map shows,Yongbyon nuclear facilityVery active, experts sayNorth Korea's plutonium productionMaybe double.
Moreover, in July and August this year, North Korea also conducted several military tests, such as the "Mars-17" solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile and submarine-launched missile, demonstrating its military strength.
North Korea does not trust the United States and they feel that it cannot be trusted as long as the U.S. military remains in South Korea.In the 1990s, the United States offered to freeze North Korea’s nuclear facilities in exchange for energy, but the United States gave nothing.
During the Moon Jae-in period, inter-Korean relations were better, and South Korea even announced the suspension of the "Ulchi Freedom" series of military exercises between the United States and South Korea. As a result, after Yin Xiyue came to power, her policy turned sharply. She not only resumed the US-South Korea military exercises, but also directly cooperated with the United States to impose sanctions on North Korea.
Libya's Gaddafi gave up his nuclear weapons, but the country was gone. Iraq's Saddam Hussein believed in the United States and was finally hanged. These things made North Korea feel that giving up nuclear weapons was equivalent to being beaten.
On August 25, South Korean President Li Keqiang went to the White House of the United States to meet with Trump. Trump said to reporters that "I have a good relationship with the North Korean leader", and Li also met with the US and South Korean tripartite in Mingguan, saying for "peace on the peninsula".
Lee joked openly that he wanted to build a Trump building in North Korea and also asked Trump and North Korean leaders to play golf together.
During the meeting, the United States clearly proposed that South Korea should increase investment, enter into a $350 billion trade agreement, and even want to get all the land of the US military base.
In terms of "strategic flexibility", the United States wanted South Korea to make it clear whether it would follow the US military to get involved in the Taiwan Strait, but Lee Jae-myung did not say it directly.
After the talks, Lee went to Philadelphia, visiting a shipyard and the Independence Movement Memorial, opened by South Korean enterprises, and wanted to make the outside world feel that South Korea has economic sovereignty and air.
But the American media feel that this is just a delaying strategy for South Korea. At about the same time, North Korea responded to the US-South Korea summit. The North Korean media criticized Lee Jae-myung for "the anti-DPRK tone has not changed, and it is the same if the president is changed", and said that South Korea "Always the enemy of North Korea ".
It also criticized South Korea for changing dozens of presidents over the past 30 years, but the essence of wearing a pants with the United States has never changed, and showed that the nuclear weapons policy is the will of the whole people, written into the law, unless the U.S. military withdraws, otherwise.North Korea's nuclear bombs will not be less, but more and more.”。
On August 15, South Korea's President Li said at the 80th anniversary celebration of the Moon Festival, "KoreaWe respect the existing regime in North Korea and do not pursue any form of absorption and unification.”
This changed the unification of the Korean Peninsula for more than 70 years, with the official recognition for the first time that the two regimes could exist for a long time.
This is related to changes in attitudes among young people in South Korea. A survey conducted by Seoul National University in 2024 showed that 35% of South Koreans feel that unification is "unnecessary", and among people aged 20-30, this proportion is as high as 47.4%.
The main reason is the economy, with the unified cost likely to reach $2.14 trillion, equivalent to 1.2 times South Korea’s GDP in 2024.
Behind the Korean Peninsula issue is the competition between big powers. The U.S. garrison is the biggest obstacle to the reunification of the peninsula. In 2025, the scale of the U.S.-South Korea military exercise reached a record, with 120,000 people coming.
North Korea will maintain good relations with China and Russia to balance the United States and South Korea. In 2025, North Korea and Russia signed a military cooperation agreement, including weapons technology and rare earth development.
China also provided a lot of assistance. In the second week of August, two Chinese trains filled with grain and cooking oil arrived in North Korea. At the end of July, the railway traffic volume between China and North Korea had recovered to 70% of the pre-epidemic level.
Ms. Kim's image is carefully crafted. She is not only a high-ranking official, but also an important member of the "Baekdusan bloodline". She has a special attitude to the outside world. She once said: "No matter whether she wears a'conservative 'or a'democratic' hat, the essence of Korean confrontation remains unchanged." She also named and criticized three South Korean ministers, indicating that she knows South Korea well.
Jin Yuzheng's two shouts in two days showed that North Korea didn't eat the same thing as the United States and South Korea, and also made South Korea's idea of improving relations through summits and dialogues fail.
North Korea has taken the status of a nuclear state as a fact that cannot be changed, and Kim Jong-un has repeatedly stressed that the United States must recognize North Korea as an “inexorable nuclear power” in order to talk.In Kim Yo-jong's view, nuclear weapons are not only a national defense tool, but also a guarantee for the regime.
At this stage, North Korea's status as a nuclear state is already a fact, and the United States and South Korea should rethink the policy towards the DPRK. while the situation on the peninsula is still complex, a thorough resolution of the situation on the peninsula requires not only the participation of the United States and South Korea.
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Kim Yoo-jong harshly criticized the South Korean government: South Korea cannot become a diplomatic target of North Korea 2025-08-20 14:24 | Source: China News Network