{"id":47550,"date":"2022-08-17T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T02:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/donetsk-self-proclaimed-leader-pledges-bilateral-cooperation-with-north-korea"},"modified":"2022-08-17T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T02:38:05","slug":"donetsk-self-proclaimed-leader-pledges-bilateral-cooperation-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47550","title":{"rendered":"Donetsk self-proclaimed leader pledges \u2018bilateral cooperation\u2019 with North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian-backed self-appointed leader writes Kim Jong-un a letter, shortly after Vladimir Putin said Moscow and Pyongyang would expand relations<\/p>\n<p>North Korea and the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine will develop \u201cequally beneficial bilateral cooperation\u201d, its self-appointed leader has said in a letter to Kim Jong-un, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>Denis Pushilin made the pledge in a message congratulating Kim on the 15 August Korean liberation day, North Korean state news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/kcnawatch.org\/newstream\/1660689386-387399944\/respected-comrade-kim-jong-un-receives-congratulatory-message-from-head-of-donetsk\">KCNA<\/a> reported, two days after reporting a similar message from Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to Kim.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/donetsk-self-proclaimed-leader-pledges-bilateral-cooperation-with-north-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian-backed self-appointed leader writes Kim Jong-un a letter, shortly after Vladimir Putin said Moscow and Pyongyang would expand relationsNorth Korea and the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine will develop \u201cequally beneficial bilateral coo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,421,40,419,930,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550\/revisions\/47551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}