The North Korean authorities invited a Chinese delegation to participate in the commemorations of the end of the Korean War (1950-1953), in a gesture of opening borders, since the country has been closed to the outside world for more than three years due to Covid-19.
The delegation will be led by Li Hongzhong, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the state news agency KCNA reported on Monday.
The group will “visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea [nome oficial do país] to participate in the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the great victory in the War of the Liberation of the Fatherland”, the name given to the Korean War in the hermetic Asian country.
This is the first foreign delegation invited to travel to North Korea since the beginning of 2020, when the regime decided to apply a strict border policy that consisted of reinforcing the fence that borders China and Russia, multiplying guard posts in these regions, and issuing orders to shoot anyone who approaches the border.
Even North Korean workers and diplomats abroad have not been able to return home since the beginning of 2020 due to the paranoia of the regime – which in 2022 received shipments of vaccines from China, although it is not known how many and what type.
The only person known to have been invited to the country in the past three years is the Chinese ambassador to North Korea, Wang Yajun, who arrived in the North Korean capital in April after spending several days in strict quarantine at a facility near the border city of Sinuiju.
To date, no further details are known about the conditions under which the Chinese delegation will visit North Korea.
The delegation is expected to attend the grand military parade being prepared in Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.
Although the war ended with a signed ceasefire between the parties, the regime’s narrative claims it was a North Korean victory because it forced the US, South Korea and the rest of the allied forces to call for an armistice.
Source: TSF
