Lavrov says relations between Russia and North Korea have reached “new strategic level”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovsaid today at the start of his meeting with his North Korean counterpart, Choe Sun Huithat the relationships between Moscow It is Pyongyang reached a “new strategic level”At a time when this approach raises suspicions in the West and its allies.

“After the historic summit between President (Vladímir) Putin and the Chairman of the State Affairs Committee Kim Jong Un at the cosmodrome Vostochni On September 13th, we can safely say that these relations qualitatively reached a new strategic level”Lavrov said in Pyongyang in statements cited by the Russian agency Tass.

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Lavrov stressed that both countries celebrate 75 years of relations since the end Soviet Union“who played a key role in liberating Korea from Japanese colonial rule“, became on October 12, 1948 the first country to recognize the existence of North Koreawhich declared itself an independent state a month earlier.

The Russian Foreign Minister also highlighted that Moscow “He later helped in the development of economy, science, culture and education”in North Korea and also that Russia I will always remember”the invaluable contribution that comrade Kim Il Sung and comrade Kim Jong Il (grandfather and father, respectively, of the current North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un) contributed to the development of our relations”.

In turn, Choe, also cited by Tass, guaranteed that the meeting with her Russian counterpart “serves as proof that bilateral relations between Korea and Russia, with a long history of friendship, have demonstrated transformative dynamism and are developing with new vitality”.

Lavrov, who arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday for a two-day visit, said the day before that this trip would accelerate the implementation of the agreements reached between the leaders of the two countries last month.

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Although details of the summit between Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin In September they were not released, Moscow He assured that he provided space for bilateral military and space cooperation.

The American media then assured that Kim had agreed to support the war Moscow in Ukraine with millions of anti-tank missiles and artillery shells in exchange for food aid and technology for military use, assumptions that were condemned by washington It is Seoul because they would violate international sanctions.

O The White House He assured last week that North Korea sent to Russia, by train and ship, more than a thousand containers with military equipment and ammunition so that they can be used in the war in Ukraine.

Source: Elcomercio

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