In keeping with Putin, the 2 international locations have plans to work collectively to construct a safety structure in Eurasia, counter Western sanctions and set up impartial buying and selling methods.
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the moment assured North Korea of his nation's “undivided assist” towards “the crafty, harmful and aggressive enemy”, hours earlier than he arrives in Pyongyang for an official go to.
Putin is because of pay an official go to to North Korea at the moment and tomorrow, Wednesday, on the finish of which a strategic partnership settlement could also be signed between the 2 international locations, whose alliance the West perceives as a risk.
“Russia supported (North Korea) and its heroic folks of their battle to defend their proper to decide on the trail of independence, individuality and improvement by their very own means within the confrontation with the crafty, harmful and aggressive enemy. , yesterday and tomorrow as nicely, and they’re going to have her undivided assist sooner or later as nicely,” Putin wrote in an article revealed by North Korea's official Rodong Shinmun newspaper and carried by the KCNA information company.
He additionally said that Pyongyang “firmly helps” the Russian army assault on Ukraine and thanked it for it.
In keeping with Putin, the 2 international locations have plans to work collectively to construct a safety structure in Eurasia, counter Western sanctions and set up impartial buying and selling methods.
Individuals and Europeans have for months raised issues about Moscow and Pyongyang's accelerating rapprochement, accusing the North Koreans of handing over ammunition to Russia for its assault on Ukraine in trade for technological, diplomatic and meals help.
This go to “reveals the extent to which Putin and Moscow at the moment are depending on authoritarian international locations world wide. Their closest mates and the most important supporters of the Russian conflict effort – the aggressive conflict – are North Korea, Iran and China”, commented yesterday, Monday from Washington, NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg, emphasizing that Russia, a everlasting member of the UN Safety Council, is now “violating the sanctions” imposed on North Korea.
