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Russia's President Vladimir Putin has suggested resuming production of intermediate-range missiles that were banned under a now-defunct treaty with the United States. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty banned the use of ground-based nuclear and conventional missiles with a range of between 500-5,500 kilometres. It was regarded as an arms control landmark when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan signed it in 1988. But America withdrew from the pact in 2019, citing Russian violations. "We need to start production of these strike systems and then, based ...
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South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador on Friday as tensions rise with North Korea. South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong Kyun called in Russian Ambassador Georgy Zinoviev to protest the recently announced deal between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un. They urged Moscow to immediately call off its alleged military cooperation with Pyongyang. Earlier on Friday, Kim Yo Jung – the powerful sister of the North Korean leader – issued a vague threat of retaliation against South Korea. The threat came after South Korean activists flew balloons c...
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Vladimir Putin received such an impressively staged welcome in North Korea that the red carpet he was greeted on by Kim Jong Un was later visible on the satellite footage from Earth's orbit. The economic relationship between Russia and North Korea dates back to the post-World War II period when the Soviet Union played a crucial role in the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1948. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was North Korea's primary economic and military benefactor, providing substantial aid, technical assistance, and trade opportunities. However, wi...
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North Korean state media hailed the meeting as a historic event, showcasing the "invincibility and durability" of the friendship and unity between the two nations. Putin arrived in Pyongyang early Wednesday, emphasising the two countries' desire to collaborate closely to counter US-led sanctions amid escalating tensions with Washington.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met on Wednesday in Pyongyang as they seek to expand their economic and military cooperation and display a united front against Washington. Upon his nighttime arrival, Putin was greeted by Kim, who shook his hand, hugged him twice, and joined him in a limousine. After spending the rest of the night at a state guest house, Putin attended an official welcoming ceremony at the city’s main square before beginning his summit talks with Kim, according to Russian media. Russian leader's visit comes amid growing concerns about an arm...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting North Korea for the first time in 24 years, thanking autocrat Kim ` Un for his support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The two-day visit comes as the two nations strengthen their alliance against increasing pressures from Washington. In Pyongyang, streets were decorated with Putin’s portraits and Russian flags. A banner hung on a building said: “We warmly welcome the President of the Russian Federation.” In an op-ed published by North Korean state media just before his arrival, Putin praised Pyongyang's steadfast support for his invasion of Ukra...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is readying to go to North Korea on Tuesday for his first trip to the country in 24 years. The Russian leader is set to visit the isolated nation for two days at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, state-run Korean Central News Agency said. The talks are expected to focus on expanding military cooperation between the countries as both remain in the middle of separate intensifying confrontations with the West. Military, economic and other types of cooperation between North Korea and Russia sharply increased since the North Korean leader met Putin ...
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South Korea’s presidential national security council decided to suspend a 2018 inter-Korean agreement aimed at easing frontline animosities until mutual trust between the two Koreas is restored, according to the presidential office. The security council said on Monday the suspension would allow South Korea to resume military drills near the border with North Korea and take effective, immediate responses to provocations by Pyongyang. A proposal on the suspension will be introduced at the Cabinet Council on Tuesday for approval. The decision was made after North Korea flew hundreds of balloons t...
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Manure. Cigarette butts. Scraps of cloth. Waste batteries. Even, reportedly, diapers. This week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons to dump all of that trash across rival South Korea – an old-fashioned, Cold War-style provocation of a sort the isolated dicatatorship has rarely used in recent years. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un confirmed Wednesday that North Korea sent the balloons and attached trash sacks, saying they were deployed to make good on her country's recent threat to "scatter mounds of wastepaper and filth" in South Korea in response to aerial le...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended the funeral service for a North Korea propaganda chief who has been likened to Nazi Germany’s Joseph Goebbels. Kim Ki-nam, who played a key role in building personality cults around the country’s three dynastic leaders, died earlier this week at 94 after being treated for age-related illnesses and multiple organ failures, according to state media. Unrelated to the Kims who have ruled the country since 1948, he worked with the North Korean government for at least 50 years, and became the Propaganda and Agitation Department deputy director in 1966. North ...
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