Sergey Baburin | President of the International Association of Peace Foundations, Vice-President of the DPRK ISG
In contemporary politics, nothing illustrates the difference between two systems better than the contrast between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—a sovereign state possessing nuclear deterrent capabilities—and the Republic of Korea—a puppet state completely subordinated to the United States of America. This is particularly evident against the backdrop of current conflicts, in which the United States, relying entirely on brute force, reshapes the world according to its own will.
Any qualified lawyer will tell you that international law, as such, exists, but it neither functions nor is applied. Worse still, today the United States of America considers itself a superpower entitled to dictate the conditions of life to everyone. It is telling that U.S. President Donald Trump is perhaps the most honest American president in recent history. All of his predecessors spoke extensively about democracy and human rights while simultaneously destroying both peoples and those very rights. Donald Trump does not speak about them in that way—he openly declares: “Yes, it was I who gave the order to kill General Soleimani on the territory of the neutral state of Iraq when Soleimani had flown there on a diplomatic visit.” This is nothing less than an admission of committing an act of international terrorism. The international community remains silent, or even echoes America’s position. When the aggression of Israel and the United States against Iran began, and as the unpunished genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip continues, we see that they have no desire to study the lessons of the Korean War—just as they refuse to study the lessons of the Second World War in the Pacific. That is precisely why the world is in danger. At times, the President of the United States resembles a Neanderthal who has exchanged a club for a nuclear missile and waves it around while threatening everyone else. What culture can one speak of? What possible courses of action are there?
Last year, when the anniversary of the Victory of the countries of the Anti-Hitler Coalition in the Pacific was commemorated, at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the leader of China put forward the Global Governance Initiative, formulating six principles upon which the world order should be built. This represents the level of understanding that the world reached after the victory in the Korean War: there must be room for the coexistence of different civilizations. Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin immediately and unequivocally supported this Chinese initiative.
We are grateful to our Korean brothers for the full understanding and solidarity they have shown toward Russia’s struggle in the zone of the Special Military Operation against the Nazi revanchists in Ukraine. This solidarity extended to the participation of Korean servicemen in the liberation of the Kursk Region from those Nazis. It is no coincidence that the President of Russia recently returned to this subject and once again thanked Comrade Kim Jong Un for the assistance that the fraternal Korean people had provided to us.
All of this lies within the broader context that the unity of our peoples—the Russians, Koreans, and Chinese—formed during the years of the Korean War, has been preserved. Over the years there have been different periods and different levels in our relations, but today we should note with joy and satisfaction that this unity is growing stronger. May today’s conference become yet another confirmation of that fact.
