SEOUL: Russian President Vladimir Putin told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un the two nations will “expand the particular comprehensive and helpful bilateral relations with common efforts, inch Pyongyang’s state mass media reported on Mon (Aug 15).
In a notice to Kim meant for Korea’s liberation day, Putin said closer ties would be in both countries’ interests, and would help improve the security and stability of the Korean peninsula and the Northeastern Oriental region, North Korea’s KCNA news company said.
Betty also sent a letter to Putin saying Russian-North Korean friendship had been solid in World War II with victory over Japan, which had occupied the Korean peninsula.
The “strategic and tactical cooperation, support and solidarity” between the two countries has since arrived at a new level is usually their common initiatives to frustrate threats and provocations from hostile military makes, Kim said in the letter. KCNA failed to identify the aggressive forces, but it has typically used that will term to make reference to the United States and its allies.
Kim expected cooperation between Russia and North Korea would grow depending on an agreement signed within 2019 when he or she met with Putin.
North Korea in July recognised two Russian-backed breakaway “people’s republics” in eastern Ukraine as independent says, and officials raised the prospect of Northern Korean workers becoming sent to the areas to help in construction along with other labour.
Ukraine, which is resisting an european invasion described by Moscow as a “special military operation”, instantly severed relations with Pyongyang over the shift.