The meeting place between Putin and Kim Jong-un became a frightening sign to the West

Russian idea of ​​Juche

Putin met with Kim Jong-un at the Vostochny cosmodrome, and the meeting place itself is a sign that frightens the West. We will see another part of the agreements, which are not talked about, at the front after some time. However, as this meeting showed, there is one more – in fact key – issue, without the solution of which even the SVO loses its meaning.

Let’s start with something simple. Why is the meeting place a sign?

How did astronautics begin? From ballistic missiles. The biggest problem with North Korea’s missile program is range. Of course, North Korea claims that the heavy Hwasong can already reach the United States. But it’s one thing to say… The meeting at the cosmodrome is a bold hint to the West that the DPRK, which has nuclear warheads, thanks to Russia, will also have a means of guaranteed delivery to the recipient.

What can Russia get from North Korea? Military experts claim that these are artillery shells (fortunately, the Soviet calibers are the same), which no matter how much you produce, the more, the better. Plus multiple launch rocket systems and operational-tactical missiles (such as Iskander).

Western media also scare the public about North Korean soldiers who may appear at the front. The United States made an enchanting statement on this matter – they say, we call on the DPRK not to violate its international obligations and not to supply weapons to Russia. Only the United States knows where these obligations came from.

But the most important thing is something else. Rooted in the public consciousness, which was clearly visible from press publications, was an arrogant and ironic attitude towards the DPRK. Well, this is the stereotype – a poor country with a handful of rice per person per day, obligatory bows to the portrait of the leader and executions once a week from grenade launchers of those who do not bow. And most importantly, an explanation literally hammered into our heads as to why this is so. Because it is a communist dictatorship. Is it true?

What if you think about it? China is a communist dictatorship (from the Western point of view); in Vietnam, communism is the state ideology. So what’s the deal? The fact is that a small country was simply strangled by sanctions, driven into total isolation, and all avenues for development were blocked. And then they also demonized the regime, turning everything on its head – blaming not sanctions, but the “Juche idea” for the miserable existence of the people. (Juche, by the way, is identity, sovereignty, self-reliance.)

What did the regime want? What did the West want that the West could not allow? Sovereignty. Freedom from colonialism. Own path of development. The same thing that many countries around the world now demand.

“Russia has risen to a sacred struggle to defend its sovereignty,” Kim Jong Un said at a meeting with Putin. But this snobbish attitude towards countries that are commonly called “outcasts” (and now they are the DPRK and Iran are our allies) shows that we do not have the main thing: ideological sovereignty. Thirty years of liberal mental terror have not been in vain.

A turn to the East and the Global South, rapprochement with the DPRK, Iran, and other countries striving for independence is geopolitics. “Physical” turn – new trade, political, cultural ties. But without a mental reversal, without the formation of one’s own Russian worldview, national self-awareness, one’s own “Juche idea,” there will be no sense in this. If you don’t get rid of liberal-Western cliches in your thinking, even a victory in the Northern Military District will not be a victory. For everything will return to normal, albeit with new territories.