{"id":21270,"date":"2024-06-18T07:51:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T07:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=21270"},"modified":"2024-06-18T07:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T07:53:43","slug":"russias-putin-to-visit-north-korea-for-the-first-time-in-24-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/06\/russias-putin-to-visit-north-korea-for-the-first-time-in-24-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Putin to visit North Korea for the first time in 24 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to arrive in North Korea later on Tuesday, in his first visit in 24 years, underlining the deepening ties between the two nuclear-armed states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un extended an invitation to Putin when Kim visited Russia\u2019s east in September for the first talks between the two men since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\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 on Monday, using North Korea\u2019s official name.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s state news agency, KCNA, also announced the visit but offered no further details.<\/p>\n<p>Putin last visited Pyongyang in July 2000, four months after he was first elected president. He met the country\u2019s then-leader, Kim Jong Il, Kim\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter published in Tuesday\u2019s edition of the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of North Korea\u2019s ruling Workers\u2019 Party, Putin said the two countries had developed good relations and partnerships over the past 70 years based on equality, mutual respect and trust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will develop alternative mechanisms of trade and mutual settlements that are not controlled by the West, and jointly resist illegitimate unilateral restrictions,\u201d Putin wrote. \u201cAnd at the same time \u2013 we will build an architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He thanked North Korea for supporting Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and promised to support Pyongyang to defend its interests against what he called \u201cUS pressure, blackmail and military threats\u201d.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>SOURCE: AL JAZEERA<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to arrive in North Korea later on Tuesday, in his first visit in 24 years, underlining the deepening ties between the two nuclear-armed states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,194,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-headline"],"views":64,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21275,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21270\/revisions\/21275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}