{"id":65060,"date":"2024-06-19T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/19\/vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-mutual-aid-agreement"},"modified":"2024-06-19T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:56:28","slug":"putin-and-kim-keep-quiet-on-details-of-mutual-aid-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65060","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Kim keep quiet on details of mutual aid agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader\u2019s visit to Pyongyang seen as a meeting of minds, but long-term military consequences are unclear<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jun\/19\/north-korea-live-updates-vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-pyongyang-latest-news\">Putin in North Korea \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As state visits go, Vladimir Putin\u2019s arrival in North Korea on Wednesday was relatively low-key. There was no long line of senior government officials on the airport tarmac in Pyongyang and only a small guard of honour. Beneath an ink-black sky, the Russian president stepped off the plane to be greeted by a handshake and a hug from Kim Jong-un, before being presented with a bouquet by a woman in traditional <em>hanbok<\/em> dress. But the modesty of the occasion was deceptive.<\/p>\n<p>Putin arrived in the North Korean capital from Moscow, via the Russian far east, in darkness, the leaders\u2019 motorcade making its way through \u201ccharmingly lit\u201d streets to the Kumsusan state guesthouse in the early hours of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/19\/vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-mutual-aid-agreement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader\u2019s visit to Pyongyang seen as a meeting of minds, but long-term military consequences are unclearPutin in North Korea \u2013 live updatesAs state visits go, Vladimir Putin\u2019s arrival in North Korea on Wednesday was relatively low-key. There was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,421,40,419,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","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\/65060","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65061,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65060\/revisions\/65061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}