Kim Yuzheng, deputy minister of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, delivered a speech on the 13th.

The conversation said that in a few days, the nuclear wargame "Nail Hammer" and the multi-domain joint military exercise "Freedom Blade" will be held simultaneously on the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding areas with the participation of the United States and its servant allies. The DPRK has reminded that the "Guide to Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Operations on the Korean Peninsula" concocted by the United States and South Korea is a dangerous "concept".

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The conversation said that if it is the current ruling party to fully study this dangerous "conception" put forward by its predecessors, and express sympathy for it and implement it, the DPRK will clearly consider this move to be the unmasking "expression" of the anti-Korean opposition gesture, the "inheritance" of the anti-Korean policy. U.S. and Japan's real actions in the vicinity of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with risky adventure have chosen the wrong place and will inevitably bring bad results for themselves.

Mr. Park, deputy chairman of the Central Military Committee of the Labour Party of the DPRK, said that the US-Japanese military delusions on the Korean Peninsula are a serious challenge to North Korea's security interests, and are also the main cause of undermining regional stability and escalating military tensions.

Park Jung-chun stressed that if hostile forces continue to show off their muscles, North Korea will take corresponding counter-actions more obviously and with high intensity. North Korea's armed forces have the important mission of containing war and safeguarding sovereignty. In view of the current situation that all improper actions of hostile countries against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are gradually expanding, the DPRK will make an extremely responsible choice.

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Kim Jong-un's "multi-party premiere" with his daughter twice

According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on September 5th, Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Council, ended his visit to China on the night of September 4th, took a special train from Beijing and returned to Pyongyang on the afternoon of the 5th.

Previously, Kim Jong-un attended the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance to Japan and the World War of Anti-Fascism, on September 1st, and entered China in the early morning of September 2. This was his fifth visit to China after becoming the highest leader of North Korea and the first visit to China in six years.

Statistics show that Kim Jong-un's visit to China lasted five days and four nights, making a record length. Previously, Kim Jong-un had visited China twice, all four days and three nights; the other two times on a special plane, the time was a little shorter.

What is more concerned about the outside world is that Kim Jong-un's previous public visits were all to participate in bilateral activities. This is his first time to attend large-scale multilateral diplomatic activities. Prior to this, Kim Jong-un's only public "multilateral" experience was on June 30, 2019, when he, then US President Trump and then South Korean President Moon Jae in held a tripartite meeting on the South Korean side of the Panmunjom demilitarized zone for about one hour.

And this time, in addition to the meeting with Russian President Putin in Beijing for more than two hours, Kim also exchanged contacts with the leaders of Belarus, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar and other countries.The South Korean congressman Yuan Zemin also "returned" to Kim Jong Un, and said he was able to shake his hand with Kim Jong Un, and got "a word of response", called the visit to China a big "effect".

Kim Jong-un ended his visit to China on the night of September 4th, taking a bus from Beijing to return to Pyongyang on the afternoon of September 5.

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Kim Jong-un visited China on this occasion, and the official media such as the DPRK Central Agency, the Central Organ of the DPRK Labour Party, Labor News, and the Central Television of the DPRK, began daily reporting on the activities of leaders in China from September 2.

According to the video materials released by the North Korean media, Zhao Yongyuan, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in charge of organizational work, Jin Dexun, secretary in charge of economic work, and Cui Shanji, foreign minister, all accompanied Kim Jong-un to visit China. On September 2nd, after Kim Jong Un's special train arrived in Beijing, they followed Kim Jong Un and his daughter to get off the bus. When Kim Jong-un left Beijing on the night of September 4th, Zhao Yongyuan and Cui Shanji stood behind Kim Jong-un again and waved to the Chinese personnel who saw him off.

In recent years, Zhao Yuan and Qingdao have appeared simultaneously, almost as a ¡°standard match¡± for Kim Jong-un¡¯s important foreign affairs activities and visits. Images released by the DPRK also show that Zhao Yuan and Qingdao attended the important bilateral meetings of Kim Jong-un in Beijing.

As the first female Foreign Minister in North Korea's history, Trudeau was one of the very few senior North Korean officials with a rich multilateral diplomatic experience. It is worth noting that a year ago, in September 2024, during a visit to Russia, Trudeau traveled especially to St. Petersburg to attend the Eurasian Women's Forum and delivered a public speech in English during the forum activities. This was then seen by the international public as a positive expression of North Korea's "move to multilateral diplomacy".

In 2024, Kim Jong-un, who was appointed secretary of the Labour Party Central Committee from the prime minister of the cabinet, visited China with Kim Jong-un and revealed one of the themes of Kim Jong-un's visit. Kim Jong-un previously visited China four times and had economic and social activities. In March 2018, he visited the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qingdao Village for the first time, and also tested VR glasses. Since then, he has also visited the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Beijing Railway Transport Command Center during his visit to China, and has visited the Chinese drug processing production line at Qingdao Pharmaceutical Factory.

This time, when Kim Jong-un met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he discussed in detail the "forward-looking cooperation plan" between the two sides. In addition to senior officials of foreign affairs and defense affairs, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov also attended extensive talks.

Kozlov, the Russian leader of inter-governmental cooperation, accompanied Kim Jong Un during his visit to Russia last year. According to the information he previously disclosed in an interview with Russian media, he was in charge of Russian cooperation affairs involving agricultural development, transportation infrastructure construction and ¡°additional food supply¡± and so on.

In addition to Zhao Yuan, Qingdao and Qingdao, Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Jong-un's deputy secretary of the Labour Party Central Committee, also attended the talks between Kim Jong-un and Putin, according to TASS news agency reports.

Kim Jong-un's daughter also attracted attention from the outside world. In 2022, Kim Jong-un's daughter began to show up with his father in public events. But until Kim Jong-un's visit to China, his daughter had not appeared during her public visit.

On September 2nd, when the Korean Central News Agency released the report of Kim Jong-un's special train arriving in Beijing, it released a photo of Kim Jong-un's daughter following her father to the platform. But after that, media reporters from various countries did not capture Kim Jong-un's daughter in public activities. Until September 5th, when the Korean Central News Agency released the news of Kim Jong-un's return to Pyongyang, Kim Jong-un's daughter appeared in the photo again.

The picture shows Zhao Yongyuan, Cui Shanji, Jin Dexun and others sitting on both sides of the long table in the special conference room, while Kim Jong Un and his daughter are behind a big table, looking out of the window together.

On September 3, Kim Jong-un met with Putin in Beijing.

"Active diplomacy"

Kim Jong-un's visit, the most important multilateral trip, was to attend the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japan and the World Anti-Fascist War on September 3. After Kim Jong-un climbed the Tiananmen building, and shrugged his hands with the old Chinese warriors who participated in the War of Resistance against Japan, "to warm congratulations."

According to TASS, before the official start of the commemorative conference, Belarus President Lukashenko and Kim Jong-un had talks. Belarusian media released photos of the two pleasantly communicating and said Kim Jong-un invited Lukashenko to visit North Korea "at any convenient time".

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar revealed on his personal social media that he "met Kim Jong Un by chance and shook hands and said hello" when attending the commemorative meeting.

Media reports also showed that Kim Jong-un had friendly exchanges with Vietnamese President Liang Jae-jung and Myanmar President Min Hoon-Lee as well. Vietnam is an important partner for North Korea and is also a place where Kim Jong-un visited six years ago.

On September 3rd, Kim Jong-un and Putin had a two-and-a-half-hour meeting at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, of which one and a half hours were extensive talks attended by senior officials of both sides, and the other hour was separate talks and tea talks between the two leaders. Pictures taken by Russian media show that the two warmly hugged and said goodbye after the talks. Russian Presidential Press Secretary peskov said that Putin once again invited Kim Jong-un to visit Russia, and Kim Jong-un gave a positive response, but the two sides have not yet confirmed the specific time.

Analysts believe that since North Korea restarted external contacts in 2024, Kim Jong-un has repeatedly pointed out that North Korea must not only respond to the maximum pressure policy of the United States, Japan and South Korea "with strong against strong", but also promote a new "active diplomacy" strategy in order to "write a diplomatic history of the Republic that perfectly matches its status as a powerful country."

For more than a year, North Korea has sent senior officials to visit more than 10 countries in Asia, Europe, non-Europe and Latin America, both to restore and establish contacts with major partner countries and major international institutions, restart and establish limited contacts with European countries, and also to make new friends in the "global south". In this context, Kim Jong Un conducted a multilateral diplomatic "first show", and intensive exchanges with multinational leaders, which is seen as the latest step in North Korea's "positive diplomacy" strategy.

¡°Return to talk.¡±

Among all the short shaking of hands, the most concerned is the congressman of South Korea, Wu Yuan, who "greeted" Kim Jong Un. According to detailed information disclosed to the media after Wu Yuan returned to the country, on September 3, before the official start of the commemorative congress, he met Kim Jong Un in the waiting area near the Tiananmen building, and the two shaken hands to congratulate.

Yu Won-sik meant to remind Kim Jong-un of the past of the two drinking and clinking glasses in Pyongyang in 2018, saying, "Long time no see, seven years, nice to meet you." Kim Jong-un responded, "Yes, nice to meet you."

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This cold, whether it represents the first step of South Korean President Li in Ming's "restart contact" strategy, the opinions of the parties are different. however, according to Yuan Zemin returned to South Korea after disclosing to South Korean journalists, he actually had "returned" to Kim Jong Un to pass on the Korean message.

He said that during his meeting with Russian President Putin, Putin asked him about his views on the North Korean relationship, and after a brief introduction, he said that he hoped that President Putin would also care about the peace of the Korean Peninsula.

Putin then asked if he had anything to say, "I hope I tell him (Kim Jong Un)" and stressed that South Korea has replaced the new government, "it is very important to open up the era of peaceful coexistence on the Korean Peninsula."

In July 2026, the meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee (World Heritage Assembly) will be held in Busan, South Korea. This is the first time that South Korea has hosted the conference, and there will be more than 3,000 participants from all over the world. Yu Yuanzhi told Putin that considering that Mount Kumgang in North Korea was just listed as a World Heritage Site in July this year, he hoped that the delegates of the World Heritage Conference who will attend South Korea next year would have the opportunity to visit Mount Kumgang.

Then, Yu Yuanzhi mentioned the Yuanshan Gema Coast Resort, which has just been built and opened in North Korea and has only been visited by Russian tourists abroad at present: "I also want to go to Yuanshan and Gema via Mount Kumgang. Please introduce it a little." Yu Yuanzhi said that Putin answered "I get it".

Analysts believe that in the event that the new South Korean government has repeatedly failed to respond positively to the release of "goodwill" to North Korea, Li did not intend to really solve the Korean-U.S. military exercises repeatedly stressed by the Korean government, but hoped to rapidly reduce the situation on the Korean Peninsula through "low-fruit", thus reflecting his unified policy achievements. In this context, Wu Yuan planted from the perspective of North Korea's construction of an international tourist resort and the resumption of exchanges with UN agencies, trying to propose a "symbolic step" that both Koreans could accept.

However, as of September 5th, neither Russia nor North Korea have confirmed what Yu Yuanzhi said, nor have they mentioned whether Putin mentioned South Korean information during his talks with Kim Jong-un.