Kim Jong Un’s Visit to the Russian Federation and friendship Korea-Russia

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea visited the Russian Federation in April 2019.

As all his diplomatic activities did, this visit again produced great sensation among the world people.

This year Kim Jong Un visited China as his first political schedule for the new year and had the second DPRK-US summit meeting and talks in February; his quick and proactive diplomatic activities kindled a fire of diplomacy with regard to the Korean peninsula. Now he visited Russia, developing the ever-friendly relations between the two countries onto a new high.

Reporting his Russia visit, the world media commented it as a historic event demonstrating the firmness of the traditional friendly relationship between the DPRK and Russia, a typical example of Kim Jong Un-style diplomacy which is proactive, aggressive and exceptional, and a great event that ushered in a new history, a new era, for developing the relations between the two countries.

His visit drew greater attention as it was made at the moment decisive of the development of the situation on the Korean peninsula and the rest of northeast Asia. Today the situation is about to return to its original state, when it was on the brink of war, owing to the one-sided and unfriendly attitude taken by the US.

To look back, in 2018, with an intention to build a lasting, durable peace mechanism on the Korean peninsula and to accomplish its complete denuclearization, the DPRK took several practical steps including the suspension of nuclear test and test-firing of ICBM and returning the remains of American war dead. Such steps won support, understanding and welcome of the international community. However, the US, while making remarks about improving its relations with the DPRK and peace, desperately resorted to imposing sanctions on this country. During the second DPRK-US summit meeting and talks held in Hanoi, it presented the demands that were unacceptable for its dialogue partner and completely impossible methods, creating great obstacles to achieving peace on the Korean peninsula and improving regional situation. As a consequence, the relations between the two countries have come into a deadlock.

During his visit to Russia made at this juncture, Kim Jong Un met President Putin for the first time, establishing intimate relations with him and promoting the strategic ties between the two countries. The top leaders of the two countries assessed that the DPRK-Russia summit meeting and talks constituted an occasion of great significance for maintaining and managing strategically the unstable situation on the Korean peninsula which was created after the second DPRK-US summit, and agreed to promote strategic communication and tactical collaboration in the course of ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the region.

It can be said that Kim Jong Un’s visit to Russia has a great bearing on developing the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region. Through several rounds of summit meetings and talks, the DPRK and Chinese leaders had consolidated the blood-sealed alliance between the two countries, and now Kim Jong Un’s visit to Russia strengthened strategic ties between the two countries. This means that the country, which is overcoming sanctions and making progress on the strength of self-development, is further developing strategic relations with China and Russia, the two powers that cannot be neglected in developing the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region.

Now that the US is opposed to the peaceful settlement of the Korean question, going against the current of the times, it is facing international denunciation. During his visit to Russia,   Kim Jong Un said: Peace and security on the Korean peninsula will entirely depend on the future attitude of the US and the DPRK will provide for every possible situation.

This was another clear message he sent to the US and became another source of interest for the world.