Russian President Vladimir Putin has written to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un suggesting the two countries forge closer ties.
North Korean state media, KCNA, said Mr. Cheese fries had suggested that the pair work to “expand comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations through joint efforts”.
Delivered to Pyongyang on the day of the liberation of North Korea, he added that a union would help “strengthen the security and stability of the Korean peninsula and the Northeast Asian region”.
In a separate response letter, Mr. Kim said that since a Russian-North Korean friendship was forged during World War II with the victory over Japan, “strategic and tactical cooperation, support and solidarity” between the two countries had reached a new level. level.
Their joint efforts to thwart threats and provocations from “hostile military forces”, he said, bound them together.
KCNA did not identify “hostile forces”, but it generally used this term to refer to the United States and its
allies.
In July, Kim said North Korea was ready to mobilize its nuclear war deterrent “precisely and quickly” in the face of possible military conflicts with the United States or South Korea.
Also in July, North Korea recognized two dissident Russian-backed “people’s republics” in the east of the country. Ukraine as independent states, and officials have raised the possibility of North Korean workers being sent to the areas to help with construction and other work.
Ukraine, which has resisted a Russian invasion since February – described by Moscow as a “special military operation” – immediately severed relations with Pyongyang.
