Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un reach a strategic military agreement

Side by side, Wednesday June 19, in the central square of Pyongyang (North Korea), Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un contemplate a precise parade. On the square, their two giant portraits, and smiling children. All the pomp of the North Korean dictatorship was deployed by the Korean leader to celebrate his friendship with his Russian counterpart. Banned from nations, the two leaders are staging what they see as a new strategic axis against the West, their common enemy.

“Both Russia and North Korea pursue independent foreign policies and do not accept the language of blackmail and diktat”, declared the head of the Kremlin in conference. By signing this strategic partnership, Vladimir Putin reinforces Kim Jong-un and his position as an ally in his anti-Western front and in the war he started in Ukraine. Kim Jong-un assured “full support for the Russian government, army and people”. But if the Russian president is traveling to North Korea for the first time in 24 years, it is because he needs weapons.