Russian President Vladimir Putin told North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un that the two countries would “expand comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations through joint efforts.”
According to the news agency, Putin said in a letter to Kim for Korea’s Liberation Day that closer relations are in the interests of both countries and will help strengthen the security and stability of the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia region.
Kim also noted that the friendship between Russia and North Korea was restored during World War II with the victory over Japan, which occupied the Korean peninsula.
Kim said in the letter that “strategic and tactical cooperation, support and solidarity” between the two countries has since reached a new level in their joint efforts to thwart threats and provocations from hostile military forces. The KCNA did not define hostile forces, but often uses the term to refer to the United States and its allies.
Kim predicted increased cooperation between Russia and North Korea, based on an agreement signed when he met with Putin in 2019.
North Korea recognized the two Russian-backed separatist “people’s republics” in eastern Ukraine as independent states in July, and officials have raised the possibility of sending North Korean workers to the regions to help with construction and other work.
Resisting a Russian invasion, which Moscow describes as a “special military operation”, Ukraine immediately cut ties with Pyongyang after this move.
source: Noticias
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