Mass Anti-American Demonstrations in North Korea on Korean War Anniversary
Jun 26
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News Summary
North Korea held mass rallies and events in Pyongyang and other regions to mark the 75th anniversary of the Korean War's outbreak, focusing on inciting anti-American sentiment and pledging retaliation.
Participants, including students, women, and agricultural workers, watched propaganda videos accusing the U.S. of wartime atrocities and vowed to fight against "imperialist U.S. invaders."
Commentary
This reveals a critical truth about the Kim regime: its survival depends on sustaining anti-American sentiment.
After the humiliating failure of the Hanoi summit, Kim Jong Un abandoned any expectation of diplomatic gains from the United States.
He has also severed all meaningful ties with South Korea—largely out of fear that South Korean culture could undermine his grip on the population. Even anti-South Korean rhetoric is not a main tool of control, likely to avoid reminding North Koreans of the freedom and prosperity that lie just across the border.
What remains as the regime’s final ideological tool is anti-American sentiment—a necessary instrument for mass mobilization and internal control. It is so essential that Kim cannot afford to even entertain diplomacy with Trump again.
So, Kim will double down on his alignment with Putin and accelerate nuclear development, setting himself on a collision course with U.S. interests.
Kim may believe that, unlike Iran, North Korea is immune from U.S. military strikes because it already possesses nuclear weapons.
But in clinging to anti-American hostility as a means of survival, Kim may be steering his regime toward a more catastrophic fate than even the Iranian regime now faces.
