(Choe
Un Ju, Research Fellow, Institute for Disarmament and Peace,
Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, DPRK, 30 June 2016)
In Northeast Asia, major nuclear powers are
neighboring with each other around the divided Korean peninsula and their
strategic interests are quite intertwined.
Peace-loving nations in the region aspire after a
peaceful and balanced strategic environment essential for the region to emerge
as a locomotive engine that would expedite the world prosperity in the 21st
century.
However, this is seriously challenged by the US Asia
Pacific Rebalance Strategy aimed at containing China and Russia with the Korean
peninsula under its control. Today, the
US is putting pressure on China and Russia from the south and the west respectively
under the pretext of intervening in the South China Sea disputes and the
Ukraine turmoil. The US is attempting to use the Korean peninsula which borders
with China and Russia, as its strategic bridgehead in tightening its
encirclement around these countries.
China and Russia are expanding its level of military
response and bilateral cooperation in order to cope with the US moves. Under
these circumstances, Korea’s reunification has arisen as a very important issue
that directly affects the overall strategic environment of Northeast Asia.
The respected Chairman KIM JONG UN, in his historic
report to the seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, set forth the
line of ensuring durable peace on the Korean peninsula and realizing the
federal mode of reunification upholding the banner of national independence and
great national unity. It is the most suitable line that assures strategic
balance in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia.
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