NATO War Preparations in Asia Pacific
U.S./NATO is stepping up its plans for confrontation and war in Asia Pacific, a matter of great concern to all peace-loving peoples. In particular, the U.S./NATO and its "global partners" are being assembled in various aggressive blocks to step up confrontation and war preparations with the People's Republic of China, as well as to prepare for war on and around the Korean Peninsula, in which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in particular has been targeted with massive and ongoing war exercises in the recent period.
U.S./NATO
war preparations are accompanied by a broad campaign of
disinformation
and falsification of history based on upholding U.S. imperialist
aims
as the starting point of humanity's concerns. It then presents
this
warmongering as just and necessary, and lines up the peoples
behind
these
crimes
against the peace and criminalizes opposition to NATO,
imperialist
war and aggression. The accusations that the U.S., NATO, and
Canada
make against China and others are all things that the U.S.
has actually carried out for the past century, such as the
criminal use
of nuclear
weapons against Japan and starting the nuclear arms race. As for
NATO,
it was founded expressly to divide the peoples' united front
against
fascism, and to use force and the threat of force, not diplomacy
and
negotiations, as the means to settle conflicts between peoples
and
nations, according to
the imperialist dictate "Might Makes Right."
The Washington Summit Declaration is premised on this warmongering and disinforming outlook, in which those peoples and countries who do not espouse U.S./NATO imperialist aims are to be treated as hostile. It says of China:
"The People's Republic of China's (PRC) stated ambitions and coercive policies continue to challenge our interests, security and values. The deepening strategic partnership between Russia and the PRC and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut and reshape the rules-based international order, are a cause for profound concern. We are confronted by hybrid, cyber, space, and other threats and malicious activities from state and non-state actors."
Elsewhere it says, "The PRC continues to pose systemic challenges to Euro-Atlantic security. [...] The PRC continues to rapidly expand and diversify its nuclear arsenal with more warheads and a larger number of sophisticated delivery systems. We urge the PRC to engage in strategic risk reduction discussions and promote stability through transparency. We remain open to constructive engagement with the PRC, including to build reciprocal transparency with the view of safeguarding the Alliance's security interests. At the same time, we are boosting our shared awareness, enhancing our resilience and preparedness, and protecting against the PRC's coercive tactics and efforts to divide the Alliance."
A China Daily editorial published on July 11 pointed out that NATO's accusations against China, including that it threatens "Euro-Atlantic security" through its relations with Russia are baseless and provocative. "China has never sent lethal assistance to either side, and it has exercised strict restrictions on exports of dual-use goods, including civilian drones. The normal trade relationship that it has maintained with Russia should be free from reproach as it does not target any third party, and conforms to international trade norms," China Daily states. It puts the blame for the crisis squarely on NATO and its expansion since the end of the Cold War. China has "always worked to promote peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and a political settlement to the conflict," it adds. The editorial goes on to say, "Instead of China posing a security threat to Europe and the West, it is NATO that is seeking to expand to the Asia-Pacific to contain China's rise. Former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in an interview last year, made no secret of the alliance's plan for Ukraine to join NATO to 'fix the Russia problem' and after that, 'we will free up resources to address the real long-term global challenge: China.'"
U.S./NATO Military Blocs in Asia Increasingly Threaten International Peace
Various military blocs have been established in the recent period in Asia Pacific by NATO or its "global partners." One of these is AUKUS, a "trilateral security partnership" between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced in 2021, that is centred around Australia acquiring nuclear-powered submarines. Peace activists in Australia have decried the massive expense that will be borne by Australia in this "partnership" and reject its aim of confrontation with China.
Another bloc is what NATO calls its four "Indo-Pacific Partners" (IPPs), Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK). Since 2022 when the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine began, NATO has invited its IPPs to its annual summit. The Washington Declaration states, "The Indo-Pacific is important for NATO, given that developments in that region directly affect Euro-Atlantic security." White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on July 9 that NATO IPPs will launch four new joint projects, which will be on Ukraine, artificial intelligence, disinformation and cybersecurity. "Each initiative is different, but the main goal is the same: harness the unique strengths of highly capable democracies to address shared challenges," Sullivan said.
Since 2008, the U.S. has been trying to set up a "trilateral" bloc made up of itself, Japan and the ROK. Due to Japan's refusal to make amends for the brutal crimes committed during its 50-year occupation of Korea, as well as trade issues, trying to make this work, despite the subservience of various Japan and ROK governments to U.S. aims, has been like trying to mix oil and water – impossible without external cajoling. With the reactionary Yoon Suk Yeol government now in power in the ROK, and the government of Fumio Kishida which has taken up the warmongering mantle of the late Shinzo Abe in power in Japan, the U.S. was finally able to hold another trilateral summit this year from May 26-27, the first since 2019 of what was supposed to be an annual event. "The summit comes as south Korea and Japan have been working to improve ties strained by historical disputes while deepening a trilateral security partnership with the United States amid intensifying Sino-U.S. rivalry," Reuters reported.
This bloc has been denounced by anti-war activists as the establishment of an Asian NATO. Ongoing denials that this is the case by all three members of the bloc were decisively disproven when they held their first multi-domain war exercises from June 27 to 29, called Freedom Edge. A statement from the Japanese Joint Chiefs of Staff (JJCS) said the drills focused on "ballistic missile defence, air defence, anti-submarine warfare, search and rescue, maritime interdiction, and defensive cyber trainings." "The Freedom Edge exercise expresses the will of Japan, ROK (south Korea) and U.S. to promote trilateral interoperability and protect freedom for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, including the Korean Peninsula," the JJCS said, adding that the three countries will continue to expand the Freedom Edge exercises. The warmongering reactionary government of President Yoon is broadly rejected by the Korean people, while in Japan, attempts by the ruling circles to remove the pacifist Article 9 from its constitution and once again send its military abroad is also broadly rejected.
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, comprised of Australia, India, Japan and the U.S., known as the Quad, was founded in 2007. Like its associated war games, the annual massive Exercise Malabar naval exercises, the Quad is expressly aimed at confrontation with and containment of China. India is hosting this year's exercises. The Times of India wrote on July 9, "India will host the top-tier Malabar naval exercise with the other 'Quad' countries, the U.S., Japan and Australia, in the Bay of Bengal this year, amid China's continuing muscle-flexing in the South China Sea and expanding strategic footprint in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR)."
The U.S.-led Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises are currently underway, running from June 27 to August 1. The world's largest naval war games, this year they involve a total of 29 countries, including Canada, more than 25,000 personnel, 40 warships, three submarines and more than 150 aircraft operating in and around Hawaii. One of the exercises is the sinking of the USS Tarawa. "Sinking the amphibious assault ship, the lead warship of its class, is meant to show China the U.S. Navy is capable of sinking their ships," writes the Taipei Times, citing an analyst.
In recent years, the U.S., UK and other NATO countries, including Canada, have been regularly sending warships through the 160-kilometre wide Strait of Taiwan, a major provocation against China that they claim they are doing to assert a free and open Indo-Pacific.
U.S./NATO Targeting of Democratic People's Republic of Korea
The U.S./NATO's aggression toward the DPRK is less evident in the Washington Declaration than its animosity toward China. However, the U.S. aim to dominate the Korean Peninsula has continued since it was forced to sign an armistice to end the fighting in the Korean War in 1953. Moreover U.S./NATO's aims to dominate Korea are inextricable from its hostility toward China.
This was well-established by two of the speakers at the "No to NATO, Yes to Peace" counter-summit organized in Washington, DC before the NATO summit.
Writer and
activist K.J. Noh, pointed out that certain forces within the
U.S. are
planning for military confrontation
with China to start between 2025 to 2027. He noted that last
year the
U.S. and south Korea conducted 200 continuous days of war
exercises around the Korean Peninsula. Ju-Hyun
Park, an organizer with the group Nodutdol, gave the view that
for the
U.S./NATO, war with China is inevitable and desirable. On this
basis
the U.S. is establishing an Asian NATO, a military bloc in the
region
dominated by the U.S., Japan, and south Korea. Meanwhile, the
Philippines
and Australia are
being brought into alliances that link them to each other as
well as
the U.S. These include AUKUS, the Quad, the Japan-ROK-U.S.
trilateral,
and Five Eyes Plus (the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New
Zealand,
plus
Japan and the ROK), whose aim is to prepare for and provoke
confrontation with China.
Korea is the place where the U.S. is making its boldest threats
and
most likely to lead to a confrontation that will spread
elsewhere. He
also pointed out that the ongoing U.S. rejection of diplomacy
and
sabotage of negotiations for the past 30 years and more and now
the
stepped up aggression have
led the DPRK to change its approach to relations with the U.S.
Starting
at the beginning of this year, the DPRK concluded that it cannot
guarantee its security through diplomacy and seeking peaceful
and
independent reunification of the Korean nation, and is now
focusing its
efforts on
deterrence. For these reasons, he emphasized the anti-war
movement
must be aware and active on the need for peace on the Korean
Peninsula.
On July 13, the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press statement concerning the Washington Summit's declaration. The statement says:
"The U.S. revealed its sinister intention to further strengthen the collusion and nexus between NATO and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, terming the just and legitimate exercise of sovereignty of the independent states including the DPRK a "threat" at the NATO summit held in Washington." It goes on to say:
"The U.S. moves to expand military blocs are the vicious root cause of seriously threatening regional peace, extremely exacerbating the international security environment and sparking off a worldwide arms race.
"Before shifting on to other countries the responsibility for the deteriorated security in the Europe-Atlantic region, the U.S. will have to clarify who has constantly destroyed the security environment in Europe for the past decades through NATO's reckless policy for eastward advance and expansion.
"It should also explain who has persistently tried for the last ten-odd years to inveigle the pro-American satellite countries in Asia into NATO, before claiming that the security between the Northern Atlantic and the Asia-Pacific regions is linked with each other.
"We solemnly warn that NATO's strategy for 'globalization,' pursued by the U.S., may certainly bring the danger of a worldwide war.
"The U.S. should be held totally responsible for seriously infringing upon the sovereignty and security interests of other countries and constantly destroying the strategic stability of the world while wantonly violating the recognized principles of international law including respect for sovereignty, non-interference, equality and mutual benefit.
"The prevailing situation requires a new force and mode of counteraction to foil the U.S. attempt for expanded military bloc, an urgent challenge to international peace and stability.
"The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will never overlook
or
avoid the looming grave threat but thoroughly deter the
aggression and
war threat with stronger level of strategic counteraction and
defend
peace and security in the region and the rest of the world."
While
NATO thinks it can do as it pleases with the countries and
peoples of
the Indo Pacific, the peoples are stepping up their struggle to
realize
their striving for peace, freedom and democracy.
Koreans in the South Launch Stepped up Campaign for Peace
Koreans in the south are militantly rejecting U.S. war aims and the use of the territory of the ROK to threaten their brethren in the DPRK, and the collusion of the Yoon government with the U.S. imperialists.
On June 25, the day that marked the 74th anniversary of the start of the Korean War by the U.S. and its allies including Canada, "Peace Action for the Korean Peninsula" (Peace Action) launched a renewed campaign for peace on the Korean Peninsula on the steps of the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul. Peace Action is made up of 608 domestic religious and civil society organizations and more than 80 international partner organizations that have been campaigning for peace on the Korean Peninsula for the past three years. The launch of the stepped-up campaign comes amidst ongoing provocations by the U.S. imperialists in the region, including war exercises and the formation of a military alliance with the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan, all of which target the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The actions by the U.S. and the reactionary ROK government of Yoon Suk Yeol have led to an unprecedented breakdown in inter-Korean relations leading to the present crisis.
At the launch ceremony, Peace Action declared that it will engage in actions at home and abroad to promote peace on the Korean Peninsula and prevent armed conflict. The group has called for: a stop all to military actions and hostilities that threaten war; restoration of dialogue channels to prevent armed conflict; an end to the Korean War and the signing of a peace agreement; and the Korea Peace Action Plan, which calls for a Korean Peninsula and the world free of nuclear weapons and nuclear threats.
The plan includes regular peace actions, a peace declaration and a policy proposal to the ROK 22nd National Assembly to resolve the Korean Peninsula crisis. It also includes international networking and advocacy and emergency actions in case of armed conflict. Upcoming actions include the "7.27 Korean Peninsula Peace Action Day" on July 27, the day of the signing of the armistice agreement that ended fighting in the Korean War. In August, during the U.S.-ROK joint military exercises, actions will be held to call for an end to the drills. Peace Action is calling for the formation of a Special Committee on Korean Peninsula Peace of the National Assembly to resolve the Korean Peninsula crisis, and proposing the amendment of the North Korea Leaflet Prohibition Act and the adoption of the Korean Peninsula Peace Resolution.
Kim Jong-saeng, director of the civic movement of the YWCA Federation of Korea and General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Korea (NCCK), said at the event, "What is needed now is not demonization and provocations against each other, but a round table for dialogue and to share practical and feasible talks for peace," and called for the restoration of inter-Korean dialogue channels. "Only courageous and dedicated acts of commitment to oppose war and call for peace across ideologies, religions, and nations can stop the madness of this horrific war. Let us all start taking courageous actions for peace together right now," he said.
Yoon Jeong-sook, co-president of the Citizens' Peace Forum, pointed out that "Even a single moment of accidental armed conflict is something that should never happen," adding, "We must continue to fight for a peaceful world that cannot be destroyed for any reason," calling on everyone to realize this.
Yang Dae-eun, Team Leader of the University International Division of the Korea YMCA National Federation, decried U.S. belligerence, noting that "Peace through strength, great power confrontation, digging deep into old wounds, constantly stimulating the idol of anti-communism [...] triggers arms races and conflicts, and reinforces the vicious cycle of division." He said, "The will for peace is more important and clear than ever, but it is rarely expressed because it is 'unrepresented.' We will work to mobilize the will of citizens for peace, cultivate the imagination of peace, and encourage parliaments and the international community to respond and create opportunities for change."
"President Yoon hasn't said a word in the past two years that war shouldn't happen on the Korean Peninsula," said Kim Jun-hyung, a lawmaker from the Homeland Innovation Party. He noted that President Yoon, instead of engaging with the DPRK, would rather strengthen trilateral cooperation between the U.S., ROK and Japan. Yoon's claim that "if you want peace, prepare for war," which he repeats like a golden rule, is a "ridiculous claim" based on a "wrong world view," he said.
Kwon Young-guk, leader of the Justice Party, said, "President Yoon is not trying to protect the life, safety and property of the people and communities, but rather to show off the little power he has. It is indeed unfortunate that the war-mongers are now in power and are wielding it [in this way]." He urged the ROK government to immediately initiate dialogue and allow civil society organizations to resume inter-Korean exchange and cooperation.
After the action on June 25, Peace Action submitted a petition signed online by 2,677 citizens to the Ministry of Unification and the National Police Agency, calling for a crackdown and restriction on the spreading of anti-DPRK leaflets that threaten the right to peaceful existence of residents in the border region between the two Koreas.
Peace Activists Denounce U.S.-Republic of Korea Negotiations
to
Share Costs of Hosting U.S. Troops
News reports inform that Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK) is opposing the negotiations to conclude the 12th ROK-U.S. Special Defense Cost-Sharing Agreement, that began in April. The fifth round of negotiations concluded on July 12 with SPARK taking militant action to denounce the negotiations, as it had during the fourth round of negotiations. This current iteration of this neo-colonial arrangement, through which the U.S. receives payment from the ROK for the "privilege" of hosting its troops, bases and armaments, expires at the end of this year. Besides being a threat to world peace, these troops are also permitted to run amok in south Korea, committing crimes and causing problems for the communities around their bases with impunity. The longstanding demand of the Korean people is for U.S. troops to get out of Korea.
SPARK noted at the time of the fourth round of negotiations that holding so many rounds of negotiations in this short period of time is unprecedented. "Nevertheless, the Korean and U.S. authorities are keeping the details discussed during the negotiation process completely secret. In short, the Yoon Suk Yeol administration and the Biden administration are consistently engaged in unprecedented behind-the-scenes and hasty negotiations," SPARK informs. It explains:
"The United States is putting strong pressure on Korea to significantly increase its defence cost-sharing and to shoulder the costs of keeping China in check and carrying out its global hegemony strategy. The Yoon Suk Yeol administration is talking about a 'reasonable level of sharing' and is making a significant increase in defence cost-sharing a fait accompli, and furthermore, it is known that he spoke of the 'Trump risk' and requested the U.S. to conclude the 12th Agreement early before the U.S. presidential election in November. It can be said that the Yoon Suk Yeol regime is showing itself as a servile regime that is anxious to please the United States and is subservient to the United States." The "Trump risk" refers to the likelihood that should Donald Trump return to office as U.S. president he will demand that ROK's funding for U.S. troops on its territory go up from about U.S.$1 billion per year to U.S.$5 billion, as he did when he was first in office.
"Accordingly, the fourth round of negotiations will be a negotiation that deceives the Korean people and listens to the United States' illegal and unfair demands for the diversion of defence cost-sharing to overseas U.S. military operation costs under the pretext of a significant increase in defence cost-sharing and strengthening extended deterrence [the stationing of U.S. nuclear weapons in the ROK]. As this was clearly expected, a press conference and peace action were held to strongly urge an end to the hasty closed-door negotiations and the abolition of the defence cost-sharing agreement."
A rally and press conference was held by anti-war activists outside the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis while the fourth round of negotiations were held. At the action, researcher Oh Mi-jeong pointed out, "If defence cost-sharing is automatically increased every year by linking the rate of increase in defence spending like in the 11th Agreement, considering that the defence spending increase rate in the mid-term national defense plan (2024-2028) is seven per cent and the period of the 12th Agreement can be set to five years, the cost that Korea must bear during that period is well over 8 trillion won [U.S.$5.75 billion]. ... It is an absolutely unacceptable tyranny for such a huge amount of national finance to be decided through closed-door negotiations while covering the eyes and ears of our people."
Oh criticized the Yoon administration's stance of "reasonable sharing of burden for the stable stationing of U.S. forces in Korea" and said, "This position of the Yoon Suk Yeol administration reflects the framework of 'abandonment by the alliance,' as if the U.S. forces stationed in Korea [are] stationed for the benefit of Korea, not the U.S. itself, and that defence cost-sharing is a natural compensation."
Another speaker, Cho Seung-hyeon, head of the Peace and Disarmament Team, raised the possibility that the United States would force Korea to bear the costs of providing extended deterrence in these negotiations, saying, "In the past, the Korean government used strategic assets that were not related to the stationing of U.S. troops in Korea." Cho said, "The United States will argue that the deployment of strategic assets is intended to threaten north Korea so that it cannot attack south Korea, so it is natural for the south Korean government to bear the cost." However, he pointed out that the purpose of strengthening extended deterrence and deploying U.S. strategic assets is not to defend South Korea, but to protect the United States from north Korea's nuclear missiles, and to carry out the U.S. strategy of global hegemony targeting China and Russia. He emphasized that paying for extended deterrence through defence cost-sharing is illegal and absolutely unacceptable.
Cho concluded by saying, "The more the Yoon Suk Yeol government clings to extended deterrence, the more the risk of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula will continue to increase, the path to independence and peaceful unification will inevitably become further distant, and [the ROK] will even have to bear the cost burden of a significant increase in defence cost-sharing." He said, "Even now, the Yoon Suk Yeol government must abolish extended deterrence, stop the current defence cost-sharing negotiations, which are being reduced to a [means] for strengthening extended deterrence, and immediately abolish the defence cost-sharing agreement."
Russia and Democratic People's Republic of Korea Sign
Strategic Partnership
Agreement
The U.S./NATO forces are also very abusive about the fact that Russia and the DPRK held a summit on June 18 to 19, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement whose preamble says that: "the development of relations of a comprehensive strategic partnership of the Parties meets the fundamental interests of their peoples and contributes to ensuring peace, regional and global security and stability; reaffirming their commitment to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, as well as other generally recognized principles and norms of international law" and reaffirms "the desire to protect international justice from hegemonic aspirations and attempts to impose a unipolar world order, to establish a multipolar international system based on good faith cooperation of states, mutual respect for interests, collective resolution of international problems, cultural and civilizational diversity..."
Canada joined the U.S. imperialists to present the agreement in a light which claims it endangers peace and the "security environment" they are imposing in the Indo-Pacific.
The Pyongyang Times noted that President Putin's visit came at a time when the relations between the two countries were developing "as a strong strategic fortress and an engine for defending international justice, peace and security and accelerating the building of a new multipolar world" and that the visit of the Russian leader would open up a "new horizon of friendly and cooperative relations through whole-hearted mutual support and selfless encouragement for the joint cause despite geographical differences."
At the official talks between the two delegations, Kim Jong Un appreciated the important role that Russia is playing globally to foil U.S. threats and striving for hegemony and for helping to maintain stability in building a multipolar, peaceful world. He pledged that the DPRK will continue to stand firmly on the side of Russia in Ukraine and defend its sovereignty. He pledged to work closely with the Russian leadership to cope with the unfolding complicated geopolitical situation in the world and to work to consolidate and strengthen DPRK-Russia friendship and solidarity.
For his part President Putin said that he was confident that the deep friendship and neighbourliness based on the principles of equality and mutual respect between the two countries will be further strengthened. He thanked the DPRK for its support for Russia's special military campaign to de-Nazify and demilitarize Ukraine and defend its sovereignty. He pledged to build and strengthen the strategic cooperation and tactical collaboration between the two countries for mutual benefit and in defence of stability and peace. He expressed support for the DPRK's efforts to stay the hand of the U.S. and its allies and their military provocations on the Korean Peninsula and in the region.
The Strategic Partnership Agreement replaces previous bilateral documents and declarations signed in 1961, 2000 and 2001.
Aimed at strengthening all-round ties between the two countries in the coming period, according to the terms of the agreement, the two countries have pledged to:
- Develop their partnership based on the principles of mutual respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs, equality and other principles of international law relating to friendly relations and cooperation between states.
- Work for global strategic stability and peace and a new fair and equitable international order, and maintain close communication with each other and strengthen tactical and strategic cooperation.
- Activate all channels of communication immediately in the event of an immediate threat of an act of armed aggression against one of the Parties, to consult and coordinate their positions and agree on practical measures to assist to help eliminate the emerging threat.
- Provide military and all other assistance using all available means if either side is in a state of war, in line with Article 51 of the UN Charter, which upholds the right of countries individually and collectively to self-defence in case of armed attack.
- Not sign any agreements with a third party that infringes on the other side's core interests, or allow territories to be used by a third country seeking to violate the other's security and sovereignty.
- Pledge to support each other's peaceful policies to protect sovereignty, security and stability, and actively cooperate in building a fair multipolar new world order.
- Pledge to cooperate at the UN and other international organizations on issues of mutual interest and security, and support each other's accession to relevant international and regional organizations.
- Prepare measures to take joint actions to strengthen defence capabilities with the aim of preventing war and ensuring regional and international peace and security.
- Cooperate in tackling challenges and threats in areas of strategic significance including food and energy security, information and communication technology security, climate change, health care and supply chains.
- Expand cooperation in trade, economy, investment and science and technology, support both sides' special or free economic zones, and develop exchanges and joint research in science and technology, including space, biology, peaceful use of nuclear energy, artificial intelligence and information technology.
- Support regional and cross-border cooperation, and create favourable conditions for establishing direct economic and trade links between both sides' border regions, such as by forming business bodies and holding forums and exhibitions.
- Strengthen exchanges in agriculture, education, health, sports, culture and tourism, and seek cooperation in environmental protection, natural disaster prevention and elimination of their consequences.
- Protect the legal rights and interests of the other party's legal entities and citizens, and cooperate in providing legal assistance, extradition and transfer of persons, as well as returning assets obtained through criminal methods.
- Deepen exchanges of legislative and law enforcement institutions.
- Oppose the use of sanctions against each other's country and consider their introduction "illegal and contrary to the UN Charter and international law. The Parties will coordinate efforts and interact in order to support multilateral initiatives aimed at eliminating the practice of using such measures in international relations."
- Promote cooperation in the field of public affairs and publication, and encourage the dissemination of each other's literature and languages.
- Supply objective information about each other, and work together to combat disinformation and provocative propaganda against either party.
(With files from NATO, China Daily, Taipei Times, Times of India, DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tongil News, SPARK, news agencies.)
This article was published in
Volume 54
Number 42 - July 22, 2024
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