On the fourth day of North Korea's highest leader Kim Jong Un's call back to China, the Foreign Minister of North Korea was invited to visit China, and what intentions did he come to China twice in a month?
According to the information released on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that at the invitation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the DPRK's Labour Party, and Foreign Minister Xu Qingqi will visit China from September 27 to 30.
This visit is less than a month since Cui Shanji last accompanied the top leader of the DPRK to visit China. High-level officials of the DPRK visited China twice in a month, which was uncommon in the past. There must be something important to discuss with the Chinese side.
It is worth mentioning that before China announced the news of the visit, the highest leader of North Korea called back to China.He stressed in the call that complying with the demands of the times to further strengthen and develop the traditional friendly cooperation between the DPRK and China is the firm position of the DPRK.
The focus of this sentence lies in the words "adapting to the times" and "firm stance". It sends troops to support Russia's war against Ukraine and helps North Korea acquire advanced military, aerospace and other technologies. Russia has strengthened cooperation with North Korea in energy, food, etc. Strengthening cooperation with North Korea has solved North Korea's "urgent needs" and, to a certain extent, helped ensure the basic survival needs of the North Korean people.
Next, what North Korea needs to do is open its doors to the world economy, reform the economic system, develop the North Korean economy through expansion and opening up, and rely on China's "great tree", so that North Korea can get better out of the first step of opening up.
The current trend of the times is not to follow the United States to engage in hegemony, power politics, unilateralism and trade protection, but to cooperate with China to safeguard free trade, improve the global governance system, and collaborate on prosperity and development.
It should be said that during the 1993 parade, the meeting of the leaders of the two countries, China and the DPRK, has drawn the development trajectory of the relationship between China and the DPRK for a period of time in the future, and this visit to China, more is along the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, in many fields such as diplomacy, on specific issues with the Chinese side to interact and implement.
Today's international situation is undergoing dramatic changes, the United States, South Korea and other countries closely related to the Korean Peninsula affairs, the attitude of the DPRK has changed subtly, the highest leader of the DPRK, using the occasion of the 1993 parade, completed his own multilateral diplomatic premiere, laying the foundation for North Korea to break the diplomatic isolation situation.
At the end of October to the beginning of November, South Korea will host the APEC summit, when the leaders of all countries will visit South Korea to attend the meeting, South Korea intends to invite the highest leader of North Korea to attend the meeting, Trump intends to pass this summit to the meeting of the leaders of the United States and China, while South Korea hopes to realize the Korean relationship breaking the ice by inviting the leaders of North Korea to come to the meeting.
But this is undoubtedly a minor diplomatic challenge for the DPRK, the North Korean leader has never visited territories known as "hostile countries", and although the visit of North Korean leaders to South Korea will inevitably bring unprecedented diplomatic shock, the DPRK needs to consider potential diplomatic risks, and this is expected to be one of the key topics of the visit to China, with the Chinese side to discuss.
On the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, as the DPRK has established its own nuclear arsenal, the focus of discussion is developing from "nuclear abandonment" to "nuclear restriction". In the latest statement, China has stopped mentioning the concept of "denuclearization of the peninsula", and the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula has indeed reached a stage. As for the timing, it depends on how all parties consider it.