'For North Korea, it would be a great thing if the new cold war system comes into play,' researcher and former military policy advisor Yang Wook told Newsweek.
The tough rhetoric came as U.S. officials said they were enhancing intelligence gathering on Kim Jong Un in anticipation of a potential seventh nuclear test, which would mark his first in five years, the longest gap yet in the decade-long rule of a leader who saw such weapons as critical to his government's survival in the face of foreign threats.
"Russia, as an old friend and an alternative partner of China, has been a good neighbor of North Korea," Youngjun Kim toldAnd he warned that, if this path continues,"the worst scenario and a game changer in Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula is North Korean Army joining Russia-China combined military exercises," such as the Moscow-led Vostok drills last held in September.
And noting South Korea's lingering denials of military support to Ukraine, he argued that Seoul may instead contribute to peacekeeping operations and economic development once the war is over. Artyom Lukin, the deputy director for research at the Far Eastern Federal University School of Regional and International Studies in Vladivostok, toldHe did, however, point out some notable developments on the diplomatic track, including North Korea becoming the only U.N. member state to recognize a referendum held in September in four Russian military-held regions of Ukraine to annex them into the Russian Federation.
"An indirect involvement of the two Korean states in the Ukraine war may result in more polarization in Northeast Asia and on the Korean peninsula," Lukin said."Russia, as Vladimir Putin already warned, will certainly be antagonized by South Korean actions and will try to find ways to pay back." "I think the most important message here is that Russia has no interest left on having some sort of 'selective cooperation' with the U.S., including on new sanctions against against the DPRK," Stefanovich told."Russia and China developed a framework on de-escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula relatively long ago, but so far there is little progress there, actually more of the opposite.
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