{"id":74781,"date":"2024-06-17T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/putin-to-visit-north-korea-a-newly-crucial-ally-as-ukraine-war-drags-on\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:16:08","slug":"putin-to-visit-north-korea-a-newly-crucial-ally-as-ukraine-war-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/putin-to-visit-north-korea-a-newly-crucial-ally-as-ukraine-war-drags-on\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u200butin to Visit North Korea, a Newly Crucial Ally as Ukraine War Drags On"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/17\/multimedia\/00nkorea-putinHFO-01-jgqk\/00nkorea-putinHFO-01-jgqk-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"P\u200butin to Visit North Korea, a Newly Crucial Ally as Ukraine War Drags On\" title=\"P\u200butin to Visit North Korea, a Newly Crucial Ally as Ukraine War Drags On\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia will make a state visit in North Korea beginning Tuesday for a meeting with its leader, Kim Jong-un, the Kremlin and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/kcna.kp\/en\/article\/q\/184d5a01855847a28fc06ee8935e0663.kcmsf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">North Korean state media<\/a> said Monday. It will be their second meeting in nine months, as the two countries deepen military ties to support Mr. Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine with North Korean weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin last visited North Korea in 2000, when he became the first Russian or Soviet leader to visit the nation. The trip highlights North Korea\u2019s growing strategic importance for Mr. Putin, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/14\/world\/asia\/north-south-korea-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">especially its ability<\/a> to supply badly needed conventional weapons for the war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Mr. Kim, it was a rare moment of his country, a pariah in the West, being sought after as an ally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt the invitation of the Chairman of State Affairs of the DPRK, Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin will pay a friendly state visit to the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea on June 18-19,\u201d the Kremlin said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u200bDays before Mr. Putin\u2019s \u200barrival in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, the Kremlin\u200b vowed to foster cooperation with North Korea \u201cin all areas.\u201d This new era of relations between the two countries was apparent when the two leaders met in the Russian Far East in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pyongyang and Moscow were Cold War-era allies whose relations cooled after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. But in the past couple of years, they have again grown closer as they shared hostilities toward the United States \u2014 Russia over its war against Ukraine and North Korea over its nuclear weapons program. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/17\/world\/asia\/russia-north-korea-putin-kim.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia will make a state visit in North Korea beginning Tuesday for a meeting with its leader, Kim Jong-un, the Kremlin and North Korean state media said Monday. It will be their second meeting in nine months, as the two countries deepen military ties to support Mr. Putin\u2019s war in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/17\/multimedia\/00nkorea-putinHFO-01-jgqk\/00nkorea-putinHFO-01-jgqk-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,14449,15646,1359,16509,1358,209,1130,1690,3102],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74783,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74781\/revisions\/74783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}