Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Islamabad (Urdu Point. DW Urdu. June 18, 2024) Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his remarks just before his visit to North Korea, thanked North Korea for supporting the attack on Ukraine and said that both countries will abide by Western sanctions. will cooperate closely to overcome
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On Tuesday morning, North Korean state media published an editorial written by Putin, which said such things.
The article, published by the Korean Central News Agency's CNA, appeared hours before his arrival in Pyongyang.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's special armored train
In it, Putin wrote, "We greatly appreciate that the DPRK (North Korea) is strongly supporting Russia's special military operations in Ukraine."
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He said the two countries are "now actively promoting quadrilateral partnership", for example maintaining Moscow and North Korea's "common interest and position" at the United Nations.
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Putin wrote that the two countries also want deeper relations in tourism, culture and education.
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He said the two countries would continue to fight "vigorously" against Western efforts to obstruct the establishment of a multipolar world order based on mutual respect for justice.
A visit to North Korea after twenty-four years
Russian President Putin's only previous visit to North Korea was in July 2000, shortly after he first took office.
At the time, Kim Jong-un's father, Kim Jong-il, was the head of the country, and the country had barely recovered from a severe famine in the 1990s.
Participation of Russian and Chinese delegations in North Korea's Victory Day celebrations
But current ruler Kim Jong-un made a rare visit to Russia last year, during which he and Putin stressed the potential for cooperation in areas such as space technology.
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Russia has become increasingly isolated internationally due to international sanctions, while similar sanctions have been imposed on North Korea for decades. Perhaps this is the reason why the two historic allies have become more motivated to cooperate in recent years.
South Korea, the United States and Ukraine have all accused North Korea of supplying Russia with weapons in violation of UN sanctions in exchange for Russian technical support for its satellite program.
However, Russia and North Korea deny this. Pyongyang has described the notion as "ridiculous" in a statement.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller repeated the charge on Monday ahead of Putin's trip, saying North Korea had supplied Russia with "dozens of ballistic missiles and 11,000 containers of explosives" for use in Ukraine.
Russian delegation consisting of senior ministers
The delegation includes Putin's relatively new defense minister Andrey Belousov, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, head of the Russian Space Agency and railways and deputy prime minister Alexander Novak, as well as the ministers of natural resources, health, and transport.
Commercial satellite images taken on the occasion of Putin's arrival also showed possible indications of preparations for some kind of military parade in the center of Pyongyang.
(AFP, AP, Reuters)
