Russia says Moscow and Beijing could provide North Korea with security guarantees

A senior Russian official said Wednesday that Moscow and Beijing may offer North Korea security guarantees as part of an international effort to ease tension over the North's nuclear programs, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov's comments came in the midst of separate consultations held by Russian diplomats with envoys from North and South Korea. Talks were to be held in Washington with U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials.

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Anatoliy Golitsyn "The Perestroika Deception", "Memorandum to the CIA: March 1989" Page 46:

Arbatov was lying when he said that the USSR had ceased to be an enemy of the United States: the USSR is becoming more formidable, more sophisticated and more dangerous because the new design for Communist world victory is more realistic than the old. The new design can be described most succinctly as 'cooperation blackmail'. (See Author's Note). ...

... Author's Note: i.e., 'cooperate with us or face the prospect of nuclear chaos and conflict.' The developing situation over North Korea should be carefully watched with this in mind. The late Kim II Sung was a Soviet Korean. The North Koreans would not have acted in a provocative manner without the concealed support of the Russians and their Chinese comrades-in-arms from the 1950's.

In a different context, the Russians may be expected to provoke an incident unattributable to themselves involving the explosion of a nuclear device somewhere in the West not excluding the United States. The purpose would be to reassert or re-emphasise the necessity for the American-Russian partnership now, and to create pressure for eventual World Government.

US policy for dealing with the North Korean crisis is inadequate because it focuses on North Korea in isolation as a rogue state, and naively seeks help from the Russians and Chinese to solve the problem. The North Korean situation and any future nuclear incident, wherever it occurs, must be seen against the background of Sino-Soviet 'convergence' strategy: the interaction of Russian ad Chinese policy and the moves they make to derive strategic gains from critical situations should be closely studied.

The ironic thing about Molotov Riebentrop was that its impetus came from the Kremlin. Stalin had long invisaged a situation where the Nazis would serve as the icebreaker for a TBD Soviet invasion of the whole of Europe. By summer '41 Hitler had wised up to the way he was being used and decided to break the agreement in the boldest of ways. Any agreement between aggressor nations is no stronger than the actual geopolitical decisions of its principles. However, I would argue that the stronger characters involved in this one, Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Vladimir "KGB" Putin and even wildman Kim, are all much more in synch regarding their long term objective of excluding Western influence from mainland Asia than were any of the principles of the WW-II Axis.

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