View DPRK as it really is

The Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States will hold their annual joint military exercise, "Key Resolve/Foal Eagle", from Feb 28 to March 10. The ROK's media say the war games are aimed at strengthening the country's defense against "any potential contingency that could arise" from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), once again trumpeting the "DPRK collapse" theory.

This theory is popular in the West. Many Western politicians and researchers, predicting the DPRK's collapse, tend to count China in. Likewise, the media in the West and the ROK keep flashing contrived news that China's army will soon or has already entered the DPRK, raising the alert against China.

The "DPRK collapse" theory is rampant because many Western and ROK politicians and researchers see DPRK as a hostile country and part of an "axis of evil", instead of judging it objectively. When it comes to news about the DPRK, they would rather expect the worst. Quite often, they enthusiastically speculate how long the DPRK would "linger on" and when its leader Kim Jong-il would "breathe his last". Needless to say, the objective of their predictions remains questionable.