Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, praised North Korea on Tuesday ( Jun 18 ) for “firmly supporting” Moscow’s war in Ukraine ahead of his trip to Pyongyang in an effort to bolster ties between the nuclear-armed allies.
Putin stated in an article published by the standard Asian Central News Agency,” We sincerely understand that the DPRK supports the special military operations of Russia being conducted in Ukraine,” using the abbreviation for North Korea’s established name.
The two countries are” then actively developing the numerous- allied partnership”, Putin wrote, pointing to, for example, the fact that Moscow and Kim Jong Un’s regime have been “maintaining the typical line and stand at the UN”.
Putin will make his second trip to the remote North, which is currently facing repeated rounds of UN sanctions for Kim’s banned arms programs, on Tuesday.
The Russian president wrote to KCNA that the trip” will raise bilateral cooperation with our joint work, and this will help promote bilateral and equitable participation between Russia and the DPRK.”
Moscow and Pyongyang have a history of kinship with North Korea since its establishment in World War II, and they have grown closer ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as Putin has reportedly became more distant and is looking for friends, according to authorities.
Kim traveled extensively abroad last year on his bulletproof train to join Putin at a Russian spacecraft.
In exchange for technical assistance with its budding dish program, Seoul, Washington, and Kyiv have since made claims that North Korea is sending arms to Russia for use in its conflict with Ukraine, violating numerous UN sanctions.
North Korea has refuted this, calling the state “absurd” even as it thanked Russia for using its UN reject in March to put an end to the UN’s efforts to investigate alleged hands payments.
Kim has also increased weapons assessment, with some reports of cruise missile launches this time cited by analysts as potential weapons purchases from Russia.
A Pentagon record from last month revealed that Russia was deploying North Korean nuclear missiles in Ukraine, citing particles analysis.