China has just confirmed its presence at the 80th anniversary celebration of North Korea, and less than a day later, the South Korean Foreign Minister received a phone call.

The 80th anniversary celebration of North Korea is about to open, and the Chinese side has confirmed that it will be present.But the Chinese side just released the news less than a day, the South Korean foreign minister called my foreign minister Wang Yi and notified, why did South Korea call China at this time?

This is the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean Party, and on October 7, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a message stating that China confirmed that the delegation would visit. In addition, the Russian side also released news, Medvedev will also attend the delegation.

However, after China confirmed that it would go to North Korea to attend the celebration, South Korea was somewhat unable to sit down.Nearly on the same day, several media reports, South Korea's Foreign Ministry on the same day issued a message saying that South Korea's foreign minister had a conversation with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi.

The time for South Korea's conversation with the Chinese side is very interesting, and the decision on the day the Chinese side announced the presence in the North Korean celebration is to prevent the Chinese party from participating?Lee has been trying to ease relations between South Korea and North Korea since he took office, trying to resume dialogue. North Korea has been ignorant of South Korea and even said that South Korea is North Korea's enemy, and it will not agree to dialogue with South Korea.

China and the DPRK have close relations, and in the current international environment, it is likely that North Korea has no contact with South Korea.。 Because the starting point of all diplomatic actions in South Korea is the ROK-US alliance, even if Lee Jae-myung has repeatedly said that he wants to improve relations with neighboring countries, he has to admit this. However, North Korea and the United States are quite at odds, and the two countries have become the front line of international friction to some extent.

In addition, South Korea is so actively interested in dialogue with North Korea, with the most important goal of addressing the North Korean nuclear threat to South Korea.Improving relations between the two countries also serves this goal. After all, South Korea does not have equal nuclear weapons, so it will naturally fear North Korea. However, restricted by the United States, South Korea's progress in nuclear research is very limited. This year, the United States was also exposed that it was trying to prevent South Korea from participating in U.S. nuclear energy research and included South Korea on the list of key observations.

By understanding South Korea's motives for treating North Korea, it is easy to understand why South Korea called China when China announced its participation in the North Korean celebration.

The first is South Korea's nuclear weapons issue, and South Korea hopes China can influence North Korea in this matter.Even if it is not directly resolved, we want North Korea to turn its mind and at least engage in dialogue with South Korea to create conditions for South Korea to address the threat of nuclear weapons.

On the other hand, South Korea also hopes that China can have more influence on North Korea's policy towards South Korea.Not only is it “non-nuclearization”, but it may also want to use China’s hand to further change relations with North Korea, so that North Korea can maintain communication, and thus make the situation on the peninsula more stable.

In addition to inter-Korean relations, South Korea also hopes to further improve relations with China. Li Zai-ming is well aware of the importance of China to South Korea's economy and knows that it is impossible for South Korea to leave China, whether it is selling goods to China or hoping that China will buy South Korean goods. Losing China as an economic partner is a major blow to South Korea.

However, this phone call in South Korea may be difficult to work.The direction of China-ROK relations depends on what South Korea will do in the future, and whether South Korea really wants to improve relations with China, instead of coming to China just for self-protection because of the current instability of the international situation. Such a relationship is neither healthy nor sustainable for a long time, and China will not buy it.

As for the issue of denuclearization concerned by South Korea, this involves more countries and interests. On the eve of the United Nations General Assembly, Lee said in an interview with foreign media that he wanted the United States to communicate with North Korea to promote denuclearization.

The two important allies of the United States in Asia, South Korea and Japan, are very concerned about North Korea, which naturally has reason to resolve.But North Korea's attitude is very tough and says it will never give up nuclear weapons, and other things can be talked about besides this issue.

Therefore, South Korea’s phone call actually did not work much, but mostly showed the attitude it wants to promote denuclearization with neighboring countries, and to some extent showed that South Korea is very difficult to carry out balanced diplomacy.