{"id":65005,"date":"2024-06-18T20:40:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jun\/18\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-in-north-korea-visit-pyongyang-kim-jong-un-live-news-updates"},"modified":"2024-06-18T23:50:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:50:38","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-live-putin-praises-north-koreas-firm-support-for-war-ahead-of-pyongyang-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65005","title":{"rendered":"Putin praises North Korea\u2019s \u2018firm support\u2019 for war ahead of Pyongyang visit \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is closed<\/p>\n<p>China has urged Nato to \u201cstop shifting blame\u201d over the war in Ukraine after the western military alliance\u2019s chief accused Beijing of worsening the conflict through support of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Nato\u2019s secretary general, <strong>Jens Stoltenberg<\/strong>, on Monday called for China to face consequences for what US officials have called a major export push to rebuild Russia\u2019s defence industry.<\/p>\n<p><em>There are reports Putin will be staying at <strong>the Kumsusan guesthouse<\/strong> in Pyongyang, which also housed Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a 2019 state visit to North Korea in 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The mansion is located near the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where Kim Jong-un\u2019s father Kim Jong Il, and grandfather Kim Il Sung, lie in state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jun\/18\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-in-north-korea-visit-pyongyang-kim-jong-un-live-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is closedChina has urged Nato to \u201cstop shifting blame\u201d over the war in Ukraine after the western military alliance\u2019s chief accused Beijing of worsening the conflict through support of Russia.Nato\u2019s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4306,"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-65005","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"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65005","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\/4306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65019,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65005\/revisions\/65019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}