Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to co-operate with North Korea to strengthen both regimes’ resistance to western sanctions, as he prepared to make his first visit to Pyongyang in 24 years and sign a new strategic partnership with Kim Jong Un.
Putin, who will arrive in Pyongyang for a two-day visit late on Tuesday, said Russia would seek to work closely with North Korea to resist pressure over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programme, according to an article published in North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun.
“We will develop alternative mechanisms of trade and mutual settlements that are not controlled by the west and jointly resist illegitimate unilateral restrictions,” Putin wrote, adding that the countries would “build an architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia”.
He also thanked North Korea for its support for Moscow in the war in Ukraine and pledged to back Pyongyang in the face of “US pressure, blackmail and military threats”.
The Financial Times reported in March that Russia was supplying oil and petroleum products to North Korea in apparent exchange for ballistic missiles and artillery shells to be used on the battlefield in Ukraine.
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Zelensky just finished a meeting with 92 countries.
Putin gets to have a meeting with one, North Korea.
Says it all really.
@AlertChamoisNo Labels2yrs2Y
Yet Ukraine is constantly begging for more weapons and complaining that it doesn't have enough, while Russia has a very solid supply chain as well as solid domestic production.
@PleasedTomatoeDemocrat2yrs2Y
The majority of Republicans in Washington and Donald Trump would be happy to sign this treaty as well. Keep that in mind when you’re making the nihilistic choice to not vote for Joe Biden.
@Bip4rtisanCurPatriot2yrs2Y
This is a sign of Putin’s isolation and desperation. It is a dangerous alliance, to be sure, but for Putin to be so reliant on a country like North Korea shows that he is not the singular power he wants everyone to believe he is.
Putin has now gone hat in hand to North Korea and China. In their eyes, and in the transactional mindset of autocrats, Kim and Xi own Putin.
@9PFKRGK2yrs2Y
Neither Zelensky nor the U.s or Russia are the leaders of the free world. Both are capitalist countries oppressing the working classes, starting imperialist wars for the benefits of the elite.
@JollyNightingaleVeteran2yrs2Y
The only point of this meeting was to get Zelenskyy to agree to starting negotiations with Russia at the next such meeting.
Mutual support against aggression, huh? One does missle launches over other countries and sends trash balloons across the border, and the other invades it's neighbors. If they were against aggression they should stop each other.
@ZealousSophieRepublican2yrs2Y
Are you free or is a North Korean free? Ask that question to a Gazan.
To a child placed in a cage at the U.S. Mexico border.
To a person victimized by a drug cartel lord (protected by U.S. establishment) or McKinsey led opioid addict in the U.S. To a person who has to work three jobs to place food on the table due to Biden flation.
To people being held at Guantanamo Bay and have no recourse to law. To victims of mass shootings.
To jobless millions of Americans who have lost their will to live and work.
To gerrymandered helpless voters who are forced to accept term less corrupt leaders for decades. To those whose values of faith, of family, of church have been shattered and replaced by hedonism and nihilism.
North Korea, along with Russia, China, and Iran are the new leaders of the free world.
They have earned that.
After the U.S. led genocidal war in Gaza, no one sees the U.S. led system as rules based anymore. The world is looking forward to an alternative system where Hitlerian leaders like Netanyahu don’t get invited to receive a standing ovation.
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