North Korea Hails Russia Alliance as “Guarantee” of Eurasian Security on Kim-Putin Summit Anniversary

SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Thursday touted its mutual defense treaty with Russia as a “guarantee” safeguarding peace and security in Eurasia, marking the sixth anniversary of leader Kim Jong-un’s first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Rodong Simun, a mainstream newspaper published by North Korea’s Workers’ Party, carried the [...]The post North Korea Hails Russia Alliance as “Guarantee” of Eurasian Security on Kim-Putin Summit Anniversary appeared first on Be Korea-savvy.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk side by side in a garden in Pyongyang following the signing of a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty, in this photo published by the Korean Central News Agency on June 20, 2024. (Image courtesy of Yonhap) SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Thursday touted its mutual defense treaty with Russia as a “guarantee” safeguarding peace and security in Eurasia, marking the sixth anniversary of leader Kim Jong-un’s first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Rodong Simun, a mainstream newspaper published by North Korea’s Workers’ Party, carried the message, a day before the country marks the sixth anniversary of Kim’s first summit with Putin in the Russian border city of Vladivostok on April 25, 2019.

The two countries have aligned closely since Kim and Putin signed a mutual defense treaty in Pyongyang in June last year, which led to North Korea’s deployment of troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine. “The North Korea-Russia friendship, which has been further strengthened through the trials of complex history, has entered into a new heyday today under the special attention” of leader Kim Jong-un, the newspaper claimed. It described the first Kim-Putin summit as a “watershed” that elevated and enriched the friendship between the two neighbors.

The newspaper also touted it as a “groundbreaking” event that updated bilateral relations to meet the “demand of the time” and a “solid cornerstone” in the development of their friendship. North Korea also referred to the comprehensive strategic partnership treaty signed by Kim and Putin last year, claiming it created “a reliance guarantee” to safeguard peace and security in the Eurasian continent. North Korea and Russia are strengthening their ties and cooperation by jointly reinforcing self-defense against reckless plots by “hostile forces,” the Rodong Sinmun said, adding they will build “a new world” together on the basis of the new treaty.

(Yonhap).