EXCLUSIVE: “Kim Jong Un will have his eyes glued to the window because just as Putin wants Ukraine and thinks he should have it – so Kim Jong-un thinks he should have South Korea”, an expert believes
Kim Jong Un will be licking his lips over the unrest in South Korea (Image: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Image)
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin could lead to North Korea ‘helping itself’ to South Korea after its President Yoon Suk Yeol’s arrest, an academic has claimed.
Diddy dictator Kim Jong Un will be ‘watching through the window’ at Trump’s anticipated peace deal in Ukraine to work out whether he can try and take a slice of South Korea for himself. South Korea has been thrown into turmoil after leader Yoon was impeached and then arrested, leaving the country vulnerable to its enemies to the north.
Professor Anthony Glees said “South Korea is facing a ‘break or make’ moment,” adding “It needs to get its house in order pretty damn quickly if Kim Jong Un is not to take advantage of its own internal divisions or the power vacuum in Washington as the world waits for Trump to re-occupy the Oval Office… the situation looks grim for South Korea.”
(Image: South Korean Presidential Office)
South Korea finds itself in a perilous position after Yoon Suk Yeol, 64, became the country’s first sitting president to be arrested, after barricades were scaled by investigators to bring him into custody. He is being investigated on charges of insurrection after trying to declare martial law in December.
The University of Buckingham’s international security expert warned that Trump’s plan for peace in Ukraine goes against the need to fight for it, and could open the door to other countries – including his own – salivating over the prospect of annexing the land of neighbours, friends and enemies alike.
He explained: “Trump is a peacenik, as I’ve said before, he does not want war, he does not want US troops getting killed. That’s the problem, unfortunately, on this desperately unstable planet of ours. If you want peace, you have to be prepared to fight for it, and to convince your enemies that you will do so.
Officers climbed over barricades to reach the President (Image: YONHAP/AFP via Getty Images)
“We fear that Trump will impose a peace on Ukraine that allows Putin to claim a win. As long as Putin is allowed to retain one inch of Ukrainian territory, let alone one third of it, Putin will say to the Russians ‘we’ve won, let’s have a Red Square victory parade’ to celebrate.
“Kim Jong-un will have his eyes glued to the window because just as Putin wants Ukraine and thinks he should have it – and just as Trump thinks he should have Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal and even the UK, and should have them – so Kim Jong-un thinks he should have South Korea.
“It’s a vastly rich country [with] 51m hard-working people, a GDP worth just south of $2tr and the 12th richest country in the world. Compare this to North Korea, 26m people worth just north of $29bn and amongst the poorest nations in the world (135th). Just a few years ago, the people of North Korea, who subsist from UN food parcels, were having to eat grass.”
Police officers enter the compound of the presidential residence of impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on January 15, 2025(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Professor Glees is concerned that any deal with Putin over Ukraine will signal to other leaders of powerful countries around the world that invasion or aggression can be gotten away with – something North Korea may consider given the unstable position its greatest rival is currently in.
“So if Trump does a deal with dictator Putin, giving him what he’s asking for, he opens the way to dictator Kim proceeding to help themselves to large slices of those they have their greedy eyes on – South Korea,” he explained.
“Biden has let South Korea fiddle around, just as he has let Netanyahu and the Taliban in Afghanistan do what the hell they want. His was a mighty America with a weak foreign policy.
“Now Trump is preparing for this entry into world politics, we have a weak America with no foreign policy other than to say ‘you want it, you have it; that’s exactly what we intend to do with Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal and the UK if you don’t get rid of Starmer…’.