{"id":58082,"date":"2023-09-05T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T06:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/ukraine-war-turns-the-tables-as-russia-seeks-help-from-north-korea"},"modified":"2023-09-05T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T06:02:24","slug":"ukraine-war-turns-the-tables-as-russia-seeks-help-from-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58082","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war turns the tables as Russia seeks help from North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un\u2019s grandfather founded North Korea with the backing of the Soviet Union, and was heavily reliant on its aid for decades<\/p>\n<p>After years of backing UN sanctions targeting North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons programme, Russia is now reaching out to its neighbour for help. The war in Ukraine has forced the Kremlin to reassess its relationship with Pyongyang as it seeks to secure weapons to replace its own depleted stocks.<\/p>\n<p>A possible meeting between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un later this month in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok would add geopolitical substance to the symbolic meeting of minds that has unfolded between the leaders of the pariah states over 18 months of fighting in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/ukraine-war-turns-the-tables-as-russia-seeks-help-from-north-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un\u2019s grandfather founded North Korea with the backing of the Soviet Union, and was heavily reliant on its aid for decadesAfter years of backing UN sanctions targeting North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons programme, Russia is now reaching out to its n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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":[41,221,421,40,419,930,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/58082","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58083,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58082\/revisions\/58083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}