At the same time as the summit was held in Busan, South Korean President Lee in Ming made a disappointing request to China, hoping that North Korea would "turn its mind" through China's bonding bridge, thereby pushing the Korean-Korean relationship to break the ice.

In an interview with Chinese official media, Lee said that the Korean Peninsula peace and stability is in the common interests of China and South Korea, and that the current South Korean government is willing to strengthen bilateral strategic cooperation, and that South Korea urgently needs China to play a constructive role in solving the North Korean nuclear issue and achieving peace on the peninsula.

Since taking office as South Korean president, Lee has repeatedly spread an olive branch to North Korea, hoping to resume the North Korean dialogue, to warm up the situation on the Korean peninsula, and ultimately to push North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons through political diplomatic means and the North Korean goal of peace and denuclearization.

But now North Korea refuses to take over the olive branch and start a dialogue with South Korea. Instead, it has carried out missile tests and other work more frequently to show its achievements in nuclear power construction.

Lee Jae-myung and the leftist forces in South Korean politics he represents need to find other countries or international organizations as intermediaries to persuade North Korea to agree to resume dialogue if they want to achieve their set goals.

In today's world, the countries with the greatest influence on North Korea are China and Russia. It is difficult to talk to South Korea on Russia's side. Putin did not come to South Korea to attend the APEC meeting this time. Moreover, the Putin government is more supportive of Pyongyang's stance on the North Korean nuclear issue, and China has become South Korea's priority target of persuasion.

During the parade, North Korean leaders visited Beijing for five days, showing the friendly relations between China and the DPRK, which also made South Korea determined to seek help from China.

On the Korean Peninsula issue, China¡¯s attitude has never changed, and we are willing to do our part inining regional peace and stability, and have always advocated the solution of the problem through dialogue and consultation.

It is foreseeable that in the possible high-level communication between China and South Korea during the APEC summit, China will agree to strengthen cooperation with South Korea on the issue of peace on the peninsula, but this does not mean that China will blindly cooperate with South Korea and exert pressure on North Korea.

For the peninsula issue is non-curved, China has its own judgment.

North Korea's refusal to return to the negotiating table and resume communication with the United States and South Korea is indeed an important reason why the current situation on the peninsula cannot cool down quickly.

But behind North Korea's move, it reflects its distrust of the United States and South Korea. This serious trust deficit exists not only because of more than 70 years of long-term confrontation.

It is also because the many actions of the United States and South Korea in the past few years have made North Korea further feel the threat, making it firm not to give up the path of nuclear possession, to hold nuclear weapons in its hands the strategic idea.

After Yin Xiyue came to power, he changed the policies of the Moon Jae-in era, cooperated with the United States to continue to exert pressure on North Korea, and even secretly ordered the South Korean army to send drones across the border for personal gain. The unsuccessful US-North Korea dialogue during Trump's previous term, and The actions of the United States to stir up the situation on the peninsula during Biden's term of office made North Korea believe that the US and South Korea's policy toward North Korea lacked stability.

The latest military actions of the United States and South Korea will aggravate North Korea's worries.

After Li Zai-ming met with Trump, the United States and South Korea have reached an agreement. South Korea has invested US$350 billion in the United States in exchange for a ticket to the "Nuclear Submarine Club".

Trump will approve South Korea to use the Philadelphia shipyard acquired by Hanwha Marine last year to build a nuclear-powered submarine.

When persuading Trump to agree to the matter, Lee Zae-ming bluntly said that South Korea needs nuclear submarines to track the submarines of potential opponents. The primary imaginary enemy among them is undoubtedly North Korea, which has a large number of submarines.

To put it more, Li Zaiming first reached an agreement with Trump on the nuclear submarine issue, and then sought China's help to solve the nuclear issue on the peninsula. I'm afraid he also had the mind of making preparations with both hands.

Under this situation, the north and south sides of the 38th parallel will still maintain a state of confrontation. As a responsible big country, China will actively persuade all parties to act cautiously, reduce words and deeds that may intensify contradictions and tensions, reduce the possibility of conflicts on the peninsula, and first maintain peace on the peninsula.

On the basis ofining peace, it is possible for all parties to go further, gradually build military and political mutual trust, sit back at the negotiating table, find the maximum number of agreements on many issues, and seek solutions to the problem.

In this process, the diplomatic efforts of China and other countries are important, but the actions of the two Korean countries and the United States, the largest external interference factor, are still the ones that really determine the direction of things.

Looking to the future, the road of the peninsula is still filled with thorns.

The Lee Zee-ming government's dual strategy of "dialogue and deterrence" has inherent logical contradictions and is likely to send a confused signal to North Korea.

The U.S. as the largest external variable, its strategic focus has always been on the Indo-Pacific region, the peninsula issue is only one of them, which has made it difficult for the U.S. to provide the irreversible security guarantees demanded by the DPRK.

In other words, long-term peace on the Korean Peninsula is not out of reach, but it requires all parties concerned, especially the United States, South Korea and North Korea, to show strategic courage to transcend short-term political calculations and jointly seek to build a new regional security architecture.

Before that, any unilateral diplomatic initiative would be difficult to really melt the ice of the peninsula without touching the core of ¡°mutual trust¡± and ¡°common security¡±.