{"id":65030,"date":"2024-06-19T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T02:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jun\/19\/north-korea-live-updates-vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-pyongyang-latest-news"},"modified":"2024-06-19T22:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:20:37","slug":"putin-in-north-korea-live-kim-jong-un-hails-close-ties-as-visit-likely-to-reshape-relationship-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65030","title":{"rendered":"Putin in Pyongyang: Russia and North Korea claim strategic pact is \u2018peaceful and defensive\u2019 \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin is in North Korea on a historic trip expected to deepen trade and security ties<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/18\/vladimir-putin-north-korea-visit-russian-president\">Vladimir Putin receives warm welcome in North Korea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/russia+ukraine\">See all our Ukraine war coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mark Rutte, the outgoing Dutch prime minister, is expected to become the next head of Nato after winning over Hungary\u2019s prime minister with a promise not to deploy Budapest\u2019s forces or spend its money supporting Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/viktor-orban\">Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/a>, the leader in Nato seen as closest to Russia, announced he had dropped his objections after discussions with Rutte, prompting the current secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, to declare that the selection process would end \u201cvery soon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jun\/19\/north-korea-live-updates-vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-pyongyang-latest-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin is in North Korea on a historic trip expected to deepen trade and security tiesVladimir Putin receives warm welcome in North KoreaSee all our Ukraine war coverageMark Rutte, the outgoing Dutch prime minister, is expected to become the next head o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1748,"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":[421,40,419,930,818],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65030","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\/1748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65059,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65030\/revisions\/65059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}