Opening a New Era of Development of External Relations
Kim Jong Un presented his image in front of the world as an innovative and flexible state leader with positive diplomacy towards the United States.
Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, elected head of state ten years ago, has made an outstanding contribution to defending international justice and achieving global peace by conducting energetic external activities.
Strategic Diplomacy Towards Major Powers
On the basis of correct analysis and judgment of the balance of forces and developments in the world political arena, Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, conducted external activities with the major powers in the region, thus strengthening cooperation with these countries and contributing to ensuring security and safeguarding peace on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia.
First, he attached great importance to the special traditional relationship between his country and China and strengthened the bilateral relationship and cooperation between the two countries through diplomacy between heads of state.
He met President Xi Jinping of China several times, in Pyongyang, Beijing, and Dalian, and had in-depth discussions with him on the problems related to strengthening strategic understanding between the two countries and keeping in step with each other in the international arena.
He also conducted energetic external activities with Russia, consolidating the traditional relations between his country and the Russian Federation.
He met President Putin in Vladivostok and discussed the problems of common concern in the international political arena and cooperation between the two countries for the development in the region.
With the relationship between the DPRK and the People’s Republic of China and between the DPRK and the Russian Federation becoming closer, the strategic
The balance between the forces surrounding the Korean peninsula was achieved, and an international situation favorable for defending the stability and peace of the world was created.
The news that he met President Xi Jinping several times a year and met President Putin in a city not far away from the DPRK, drew special attention of the international society.
The world media organs called his activities with China and Russia a kind of “diplomacy attaching more importance to contents than to form” and a “pragmatic diplomacy.”
What is clear is that the mode of his diplomatic activities proved itself quite effective in deepening friendship between the heads of state, and furthermore developing bilateral relations and achieving substantial results.
World-Shaking Diplomacy Towards the United States
Kim Jong Un presented his image in front of the world as an innovative and flexible state leader with positive diplomacy towards the United States.
As everybody knows, the relationship between the DPRK and the United States has been most hostile on this planet over the past 70 years.
Regarding the DPRK as a thorn in its flesh, the United States has resorted to every conceivable means and method to suffocate the country, which is invariably following the road of independence and socialism.
The DPRK’s response to it has been something beyond imagination. As the United States resorted to nuclear threats, it has possessed the capability with which to make an annihilatory retaliation against the US mainland.
The bilateral relations, which were growing more aggravated, were a source of the gravest threat not only to the situation on the Korean peninsula but to global peace and security, arousing a growing concern among the international community.
Around this time, Kim Jong Un arranged summit meetings with the United States several times with courageous and proactive proposals, striking the world with wonder.
The world media reported that the first DPRK-US summit meeting in Singapore on June 12, 2018, was recorded in history as a “handshake of the century,” a “short but great handshake,” which brought down the barriers of the cold war lasting for about 70 years and whose meaning had surpassed that of the “Beijing handshake” between Mao Zedong and Nixon in 1972 and of the “Reykjavik handshake” between Gorbachev and Reagan in 1986. The world commented the first-ever DPRK-US summit meeting as a “super-realistic and historic event,” “convulsions of nature,” “world-shaking event” and “a meeting to be dealt with in the history books and world history textbooks.”
The three rounds of subsequent DPRK-US summits showed the world that the conflict and dispute between the two most hostile countries in the world could be fully resolved by diplomatic, ie, peaceful methods, not by military methods.