North Korea assured today that the Russian president, Vladimir Putinhas shown its willingness to visit its territory in the near future, in response to the invitation of leader Kim Jong-un at his summit last year.
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Putin would have communicated this to the North Korean Foreign Minister, Choe Son-hui, in a courtesy visit by the chancellor during her trip to Russia between January 15 and 17, as reported that Sunday by the state news agency KCNA along with a summary of said visit.
During the meeting, Choe conveyed to the Russian president “warm greetings” from Kim and Putin asked him to send him his New Year greetings, showing his “deep gratitude once again for your invitation” to travel to Pyongyang “and expressed his willingness to visit the DPRK in the near future,” according to KCNA.
DPRK is the acronym for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the official name of North Korea.
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Choe’s visit to Russiawhich included meetings with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, occurred “at a time when friendly and cooperative relations between both countries have definitively entered the course of a new comprehensive development,” noted the cited medium.
The recent trip of the North Korean Foreign Minister served to continue delving into ways to implement the agreements reached during the summit last September between Putin and Kim on Russian territory, and deepen their exchanges and cooperation “in all fields this year” 2024, the 75th anniversary of the conclusion of their bilateral economic and cultural cooperation agreement.
He north korean regime He also assured that both nations have “deepened their strategic communication” and have committed to strengthening their tactical cooperation “to defend their core interests and establish a new multipolarized international order based on independence and justice.”
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Both countries shared their concern “due to the negative influence of the United States and its allies”, which “threaten the security environment on the Korean Peninsula”, and agreed to deal with it “through close cooperation”, agreeing that their friendly relations and collaboration “serve as a powerful strategic strength”, and committed to bringing them beyond.
Among other points, Pyongyang praised Russia’s “important mission” of serving to maintain “strategic stability” at the global level, to which Moscow showed its “deep gratitude” for the “complete and supportive” support shown by the North in regards to its special military operation in Ukraine, a euphemism that refers to the invasion of the neighboring country.
Pyongyang has been supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine and would have been supplying it with ballistic missiles, in exchange for Moscow providing military assistance in other areas, at a time when North Korea It is focused on its weapons development and has taken its belligerence towards Washington and Seoul to a new level.
