{"id":65062,"date":"2024-06-19T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/19\/russia-and-north-korea-sign-mutual-defence-pact"},"modified":"2024-06-20T02:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:29:13","slug":"russia-and-north-korea-sign-mutual-defence-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65062","title":{"rendered":"Russia and North Korea sign mutual defence pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un\u2019s agreement raises western alarm about possible Russian help for nuclear programme<\/p>\n<p>The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, have signed a pact that includes a clause requiring the countries to come to each other\u2019s aid if either is attacked, a move that has raised western concerns about potential Russian aid for Pyongyang\u2019s missile or nuclear programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of a mutual defence clause in their comprehensive strategic partnership, which Kim described as an \u201calliance\u201d, will add to the west\u2019s alarm over growing economic and military ties between North Korea and Russia. The deal was finalised on Wednesday after hours of talks in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/19\/russia-and-north-korea-sign-mutual-defence-pact\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un\u2019s agreement raises western alarm about possible Russian help for nuclear programmeThe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, have signed a pact that includes a clause requiring the co&#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":[41,221,421,40,419,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","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\/65062","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=65062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65070,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65062\/revisions\/65070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}