North Korea suddenly held a large-scale military exercise, and more than 200 artillery shells were fired in the direction of South Korea, so what is going on?Many friends believe that North Korea's toughness toward the United States and South Korea is actually conducive to easing our strategic pressure.
As soon as this sudden incident happened, many people on the Internet said that North Korea was going to start attacking South Korea, and South Korea also deliberately played up North Korea's imminent attack on South Korea. The DPRK conducted a massive firepower exercise near the northern limit in the western part of the peninsula, firing more than 200 artillery shells, which allegedly did not fall into the waters south of the northern limit.
In fact, the outside world has different views on this matter, so we might as well sort it out one by one and see what it's all about. First, there is the view that this is a fierce response from the DPRK to the growing military and security threat from the United States. On January 2, the U.S. and South Korean forces conducted joint firepower exercises near the Demilitarized Zone on the peninsula, which was considered a serious provocation by North Korea. Then there was this shelling, which was also a-for-tat military operation, and some friends thought that although the scale of this shelling was not large, it was a turning point.
Speaking of this viewpoint, there is indeed some truth in it, and the DPRK's strategic positioning towards the ROK has also undergone substantial changes. You see, at the Eighth and Ninth Plenary Sessions of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) not long ago, the DPRK leader made a very shocking reorientation of relations between the DPRK and the ROK, pointing out that the DPRK and the ROK are no longer homogeneous, but hostile.
He is not denying that the DPRK and the ROK are not one nation, but in fact he does not recognize the ROK as a specific administrative state and a sovereign state, but that the south of the Korean Peninsula is a puppet of the United States in our nation. If necessary, the North represents the legitimacy of the entire Korean Peninsula and the legal unity of the Korean nation, so it can take decisive action to realize the complete reunification of the Korean nation.
Therefore, this change in positioning, you can think of it as a very serious declaration of war, and there is also a point of view that China and North Korea have a treaty of mutual assistance and friendship, and we must ensure the security of North Korea, so the North Korean side is a little emboldened and takes the initiative to show a tough posture to the United States and South Korea, and the trend on the Korean Peninsula will become more and more dangerous.
Of course, there is some truth in your view, and the DPRK has a fairly accurate grasp of the current international situation, and it has acted quite simply. He used the current tough and even a bit radical method to escalate the semi-conductor crisis to you, which can highlight its own importance, and at the same time give himself more bargaining chips in the US-South Korea game and in the maneuvering of major powers, and even it will eventually attract further attention from the United States and be recognized by the United States.
The United States wants to provoke conflicts in various places, you see in the South China Sea, on the Shanghai Peninsula, in fact, the United States is following such a path, so no matter what the reason is on the North Korean side, its current tough approach, but objectively it does give the United States and South Korea a certain reason, which the United States is also very clear about, so this matter is actually quite delicate. In fact, this treaty can indeed protect North Korea, but at the same time it can bind North Korea. Everyone generally believes that there is a shadow of Russia behind this transformation of North Korea, so if we stand at the level of Russia, from a strategic point of view, the DPRK is tough on the United States and South Korea, and from the logical and objective results, it can indeed ease Russia's strategic pressure.
But now you don't have any evidence that there is any agreement between Russia and North Korea, but it is a fact that the Russian factor is increasingly running to the Korean Peninsula. If the Russian factor is increasing in Northeast Asia, this is also a matter of both advantages and disadvantages.
As for saying that North Korea is tough and that the United States and South Korea are beneficial to us, many of our friends think so, saying that if the North Korean side makes a move, it will be enough, and the United States will be able to bear it. Speaking of which, how can this be beneficial to us?Because on the surface, it seems to be advantageous, but our strategic direction is not in Northeast Asia, not on the Korean Peninsula, and it is definitely not good for us to have a mess on our doorstep.
If it is true that some friends said that in the event of a conflict between China and the United States, we will activate the card of the Korean Peninsula, then if this is the case, the initiative will not be in the hands of the DPRK. If North Korea wants to do it himself now, that's not what we want to see.