{"id":59288,"date":"2023-10-19T14:56:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T05:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/19\/russias-foreign-minister-hails-new-level-of-ties-during-north-korea-trip"},"modified":"2023-10-19T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T05:56:47","slug":"russias-foreign-minister-hails-new-level-of-ties-during-north-korea-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59288","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s foreign minister hails \u2018new level\u2019 of ties during North Korea trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergei Lavrov praises Kim Jong-un for \u2018unambiguous support\u2019 for Ukraine war on visit that could pave way for summit with Vladimir Putin<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has said Moscow\u2019s relations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> have reached a \u201cnew level\u201d, as concern grows over deepening military ties between the two countries amid the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, Lavrov hailed last month\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/13\/kim-jong-un-putin-weapons-talk-russian-space-base-amur\">summit<\/a> in Russia\u2019s far east between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> and the North\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, as evidence that bilateral ties were at a \u201cqualitatively new, strategic level\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/19\/russias-foreign-minister-hails-new-level-of-ties-during-north-korea-trip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergei Lavrov praises Kim Jong-un for \u2018unambiguous support\u2019 for Ukraine war on visit that could pave way for summit with Vladimir PutinRussia\u2019s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has said Moscow\u2019s relations with North Korea have reached a \u201cnew level\u201d, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,221,421,40,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59288","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-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\/59288","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59289,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59288\/revisions\/59289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}