Artillery for Nuclear Knowhow?

Kim Jong-un is expected to meet with Vladimir Putin later this month to talk weapons. Here’s how the U.S. screwed this one up

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un later this month in Vladivostok and discuss a possible deal that would include Pyongyang-produced artillery shells for Moscow in exchange for food and “advanced technology for satellites and nuclear-powered submarines,” according to The New York Times.  

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The report, citing unnamed officials, said the meeting could take place from 10-13 September at the University in Vladivostok – during the Eastern Economic Forum. The U.S. called on North Korea to refuse Russia’s request and warned the impoverished country that Washington would impose more sanctions if there’s a deal. 

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Russia has been in a long conflict with Ukraine and could use the artillery. Pyongyang, in the meantime, has voiced its outrage over the U.S.’s recent provocations and sees a strong nuclear capability as a deterrent. 

Last month, President Joe Biden stepped up his effort to surround China and provoke tensions in the Asia-Pacific at Camp David during a meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. 

NBC News reported that North Korea has been making significant strides in its nuclear capabilities with its Hwasong-18. A report sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a defense think tank, said the new missile can strike as far as Washington and has a comparable trajectory to Russia’s Topol-M ICBM. 

Biden, evidently taking notes from Russia that touted its “limitless” partnership with China, told reporters that the U.S. is entering “a new era of partnership” in the region. The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. president scored a diplomatic victory by just having the two other men in the same room given the lingering tensions between Seoul and Tokyo over Japan’s colonial occupation of South Korea from 1910 to 1945. 

“This is the first summit I’ve hosted at Camp David, and I can think of no more fitting location to symbolize our new era of cooperation,” Biden said, according to Politico. 

The paper noted that China is an economic behemoth in the region, and both Japan and South Korea do not want to explicitly identify China as the cause of this triumvirate. Beijing sees this coalition as another NATO forming at its doorstep—a claim that the U.S. has denied. 

A top North Korean general said last month that the U.S.’s “hostile” foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region in recent months is pushing the world to the edge of a nuclear confrontation. 

“Now, the question is not if a nuclear war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, but who and when it starts,” Gen. Kang Sun-nam said at the XI Moscow International Security Conference, according to RT, the Russian outlet. He continued, “The U.S., which has been waging the hostile state policy against [North] Korea for 80 years blatantly interferes with the independent development and security interests of the north that pushes the situation in North-Eastern Asia to the brink of nuclear war.”

The general also accused Washington of trying to overthrow the government in Pyongyang. He blamed the U.S. of ratcheting tensions in the region by flooding weapons into the Pacific and flying nuclear-capable jets and sailing nuclear-capable submarines into the waters. 

TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has reported extensively on how the U.S. is attempting to surround China in hopes to weaken its power in the hemisphere. Last month, the USS Michigan, a nuclear-powered submarine, visited the Korean Peninsula.