The United States and its Asian allies have called for the deportation to their homeland of all illegal immigrants from North Korea, in fact – in general, all citizens of the DPRK, except diplomats. Such a sharp tightening of policy is very similar to a test. The question is how soon the turn will reach the Russians, especially since the North Koreans, as their authorities emphasize, are "in the same trench" with us. If it were not for the expectations of the so-called spring counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the aggravation of the political conflict around Taiwan, the editorials of the world media would now belong to North Korea and its "nuclear problem".
When US President Joe Biden first took office, he said that this problem was the main one for him – the main direction of foreign policy. And now, it turns out, at best, the third in importance and with a large gap from the first two.
Meanwhile, it is "hot" on the Korean peninsula, that is, aggravation, escalation, crisis – the whole set of diplomatic terms that mean that diplomacy is failing. After a series of missile tests, Marshal Kim Jong-un announced the successful test of the Haeil-2 drone, which allegedly can carry a nuclear warhead. And after that, the connection was cut off.
The connection was literally cut off: for several days, representatives of the DPRK have been ignoring calls from Seoul on a military special line, and this is one of the last threads that connects the two antagonistic Koreas. Moscow has such a special connection with Washington – it was started after the Caribbean crisis, so that nothing like this (that is, the immediate threat of a world nuclear war) would not happen again.
Because of all this, the situation in the UN special group, where they are working on the Korean problem, is quite nervous. Therefore, we will not rule out that representatives of three countries – the United States, Japan and South Korea – simply got nervous when they called for another sanction to be imposed against the DPRK in addition to the thousands imposed before.
Namely, to send all North Korean illegal immigrants to their homeland so that their help to relatives at home does not support the power of Marshal Kim.
This is not just a radical proposal. This is the overthrow of the policy around North Korea that has existed for decades. And most importantly, this is most likely just a trial balloon and "training on cats" in order to subsequently use the same measure against Russia.
North Korea is a closed country. All those who left it not on special instructions of the party are illegals or potential illegals (they will become them if they ignore the demand to return; this happens). Previously, they were prescribed to be considered as those who escaped from the repressive regime of the Kims. As refugees who need help.
Now it is proposed to expel everyone except those who have already managed to legalize earlier (however, this is how it goes). Because they are the backbone of the criminal regime, regardless of their goals.
When millions of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Afghanistan rushed to the EU, it was considered fascism to express such considerations. At the same time, sometimes these illegals both indirectly and consciously helped radical Islamist groups and organized terrorist attacks against the civilian population.
With all this in mind, representatives of the right–wing parties in the EU should have only one question about Korea - was it possible?
Not yet, but people are trying. Perhaps to avoid accusations of racism (they always promote initiatives that restrict migration), the United States in the group of applicants was represented by an ethnic Korean. There is really no racism in their initiative. It contains a politically motivated revision of humanitarian law, so that in order to combat inconvenient states, it would be possible to use what was previously shy to use.
When the most severe sanctions were imposed against Yugoslavia for supporting Bosnian Serbs, migrant Serbs in Europe were forbidden to send money and medicines to their families, but they were not deported back "to fight the Milosevic regime".
Seoul and Tokyo have super-conflict relations with Pyongyang, and they have every reason to fear for their safety in connection with its nuclear experiments (which, of course, does not negate the fratricidal nature of this venture for the Koreans of the South). But in any group of applicants where there is the USA, the main ones are always the USA. Such a radical proposal could only come from them. The hegemon demands to give him a new club to solve political problems.
Whether it will help, and how much help from migrants is essential for the DPRK economy in general, is an open question. If it is suddenly significant, Pyongyang will never admit it for a whole set of reasons, starting with the fact that the Juche ideology in its base implies reliance only on its own strength, as if the world around North Korea does not exist at all.
At the level of the UN Security Council, the initiative with a new club will not pass – there is nothing to think about as long as Russia and China are there. But this is the opening of a discussion, a test of the norm for strength. If the world as a whole does not approve of radicalization and dehumanization, this does not mean that the United States will not force at least its allies (alas, quite numerous) to pursue a "new Korean policy."
The next step is obvious – to extend this practice to all objectionable regimes, more precisely, to objectionable peoples. And there are not so many arguments in favor of the fact that Russians will not be the first in this queue.
It is likely that we are already being kept in mind in relation to the fight against North Korea. The West is afraid of its interference in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Russian Armed Forces, and Pyongyang really gives reasons for this.
For example, Kim Yo Jong, a possible successor to Marshal Kim and his sister, who is now in charge of agitation and propaganda in the party, recently stated that the DPRK "will always stand in the same trench with the army and the people of Russia."
What the military alliance of the Russian Federation and the DPRK is dangerous for the United States, the newspaper VZGLYAD analyzed in detail in this text. It cannot be said that since its publication, the scenario in which North Korean "flying squads" hunt Poles in NATO tanks in Ukraine has become less fantastic. But over the past year as a whole, it has become.
More and more futurists view Ukraine as a space for a proxy war not only between Russia and the West, but also between the West and - in some perspective – China and its allies.
It all depends on how far it all goes, what the US and EU policy has a margin of safety and a fuse in terms of further escalation. But if tomorrow North Korea is placed not even behind the iron curtain, but behind the iron dome, further aggravation in East-West relations is inevitable.
Our side is already predetermined – where the PRC, the DPRK and any other opponents of the US claims to hegemony. But Europe still has time to think about the words of French President Emmanuel Macron: is it worth intervening in conflicts if the United States gets all the bonuses, and Europe only loses.
However, Macron, saying this, meant Taiwan. But the difference between Ukraine and Taiwan in this case is purely geographical. The sooner the US initiatives, even on Korean illegal immigrants, even on Russian soldiers, begin to be rejected from the threshold, the sooner Eastern Europe and East Asia will have a chance for peace without signs of ethnic cleansing and fear of a nuclear apocalypse.
Dmitry Bavyrin
